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By Arielle Emmett Survey respondents were much more resounding in their opinions about NT Server - 75% already are using the network operating system (NOS), primarily as an add-on to support new applications. Novell, Inc.'s loss is Microsoft Corp.'s gain - 27% of the NT users said NT is displacing NetWare at their organizations. NT's momentum is building in the academic environment, says Al Andrews, dean of business and technology at the 7,000-student Kansas City Community College. The NOS is proliferating all over campus thanks to high commercial demand for NT Server training, Andrews says. "Windows NT Servers are replacing NetWare, and businesses want classes in it.'' The college also has substantial financial motivation to use NT. "When I go with Novell, I'm paying industrial prices,'' Andrews says, whereas Microsoft offers the school educational discounts. "Everybody is getting the Windows NT environment, and NetWare is losing share every day,'' says Berish & Associates' Thompson. "Novell ignored its client base, hasn't made major improvements and tried to get into other areas that Microsoft was good at,'' he asserts. Novell's own tools make it easy to migrate to NT, he adds. However, others aren't yet ready to write the eulogy for NetWare. "NT will continue to grow, but won't replace NetWare services anytime soon,'' asserts Bruce Curtis, network consultant at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Respondents' concerns about NT Server range from its lack of a comprehensive directory to the product's Microsoft-centric approach. The jury is still out on Active Directory Services (ADS), the next-generation directory that will ship with Windows NT Server 5.0 when it's released next year. More than a quarter of NT users plan to make do with the existing NT domain structure; 24% definitely intend to implement ADS. But most are undecided, and say it depends on many factors. NEXT SECTION: Internet implementations How to Advertise | Copyright
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