>1. Using a stable network (prefferable not Novell)

I've have seen these comments about Novell on this site before. I'm not sure where they come from. In my experience, I see Netware servers running well over a year at a time, without reboots or corruption problems. Even then, the reboots are normally due to power interruptions or hardware/software upgrades.

WinNT (& W2K) begs for regular reboots

As an application server, Netware is lacking...