US PC Week, which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and is even expected to grace UniForum with its presence, attacked Microsoft’s NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT. The NetWare referred to is NetWare 4.0 which it reviews. In a sidebar, the initial release of NT is trashed by beta testers as lacking the enterprise features such as a global directory, support for multiple protocols or server-based communications and server-to-server mirroring found in competitive products. As a result, it says, many potential buyers are ruling out plans to use NT as a mission-critical server operating system. This from a magazine recently accused by one of its own columnists of being too cosy with Microsoft. Novell plans to ship v 4.0 of NetWare for Unix by year-end.
