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[Fact 1]: Microsoft's more aggressive marketing was aimed directly to management through major magazines; Novell NetWare's was through IT specialist magazines with distribution limited to select IT personnel.Novell did not adapt their pricing structure accordingly and NetWare sales suffered at the hands of those corporate decision makers whose valuation was based on initial licensing fees.

[Fact 2]: Today, the disk service model is making a comeback, see SAN.Most network protocols in use at the time NetWare was developed didn't trust the network to deliver messages.

[Fact 3]: A typical client file read would work something like this:# Client sends read request to server# Server acknowledges request# Client acknowledges acknowledgement# Server sends requested data to client# Client acknowledges data# Server acknowledges acknowledgementIn contrast, NCP was based on the idea that networks worked perfectly most of the time, so the reply to a request served as the acknowledgement.

[Fact 4]: Both were peer to peer systems, where no specialist server was required, but instead all PCs on the network could share their resources.The product line became in 1993.NetWare dominated the network operating system |NFS]] services over TCP/IP (not NetWare's native IPX protocol) against a dedicated Auspex NFS server and a SCO Unix server running NFS service.

[Fact 5]: NetWare NFS outperformed both 'native' NFS systems and claimed a 2:1 performance advantage over SCO Unix NFS on the same hardware.The reasons for NetWare's performance advantage are given below.At the time NetWare was first developed, nearly all LAN storage was based on the disk server model.

[Fact 6]: Other new features were:

Novell Storage Services

Oracle 8i with a 5-user licenseThe Cluster Services greatly improved on SFT-III, as NCS does not require specialized hardware or identical server configurations.NetWare 5 was released during a time when NetWare market share dropped precipitously; many companies and organizations were replacing their NetWare servers with servers running Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

[Fact 7]: It was written from the ground up as a platform for client-server processing services.

[Fact 8]: Probably the single greatest reason for Novell's success during the 80's and 90's was the efficiency of NetWare compared to general purpose operating systems.

[Fact 9]: Novell also released their last upgrade to the NetWare 4 operating system, NetWare 4.2.Netware 5 and above supported Novell NetStorage for Internet-based access to files stored within Netware.Novell released NetWare 5.1 in January 2000, shortly after its predecessor.

[Fact 10]: Here is an example of a client read request using this model:# Client sends read request to server# Server sends requested data to clientAll requests contained a sequence number, so if the client didn't receive a response within an appropriate amount of time it would re-send the request with the same sequence number.

[Fact 11]: It introduced a number of useful tools, such as:

IBM WebSphere Application Server

NetWare Management Portal that can run atop either a Linux or a NetWare kernel platform.

[Fact 12]: With the introduction of the Pentium processor, NetWare's performance advantage began to be outweighed by the complexity of managing and developing applications for the NetWare environment.