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by merlyn 1260 days ago
Novell users at the time 4.0 came out had no clue what a Directory was, and why they should use it. They were quite used to v3.11, and everybody turned their back on v4.0 as too complex, totally unneeded, and why bother.

By the time Microsoft AD came around, there were actual uses for Microsoft AD, and plenty of buy-in.
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tssva 1260 days ago
I had several customers that ran large NDS instances covering 10s of thousands of users distributed globally.
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xen2xen1 1259 days ago
Did NDS ever have the equivalent of Windows 2000 Group Policy? And when, if so? Any discussion of dominance of Windows Sever that doesn't mention GPOs is missing the layer that finished off anything competing. Very that's in GP on server 2022 wasn't in Win2k, outside of controlling features as they were added.
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tssva 1257 days ago
The war against Novell was basically already won by the time group policy was introduced. That being said Novell introduced Novell Application Launcher in 1996 which had some of the features of group policy. Novell introduced ZENworks in 1998 which would have been much more of a competitor to GPO.
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