With NetWare, Novell essentially created corporate PC networking. The years may have dulled some of this pioneer product's luster as it ceded its dominant position to Windows, Unix, and, most recently ...

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

It has long been driven into our heads at work that we have a seven year old backup through our network shares, and that critical documents should always be stored there. Well last Friday one of my ...

I got to sit down last week with Charlie Ungashick, Novell’s director of product management and marketing, Linux servers and desktops. (Charlie hands out two business cards: one for his title, one for ...

Major releases of operating systems such as Novell Inc.’s NetWare or Microsoft Corp.’s Windows traditionally have featured major architecture changes that challenged the ability of IT staff to adapt ...

I think NetWare is going to make a comeback. No! Stop laughing. I'm serious! Let me make myself perfectly clear. NetWare is not going to come back and sweep Windows 2000 and Linux off servers and ...

Novell's ambitious strategy for Linux has led some customers to worry that the networking company may withdraw support for some of its legacy applications. Speaking at the company's Linux Big Picture ...

Software from Novell that implemented the NFS distributed file system on NetWare servers. It allowed Unix and other NFS client machines to access files on a NetWare server. See LAN Workplace. THIS ...

Got Macs? Apple Macintosh computers often seem to be the forgotten stepchildren in an enterprise network. Sometimes they’re forgotten because they just aren’t attached to the network, running ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...