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.
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.