I've talked about this one a lot, but more data keeps coming out. Novell held their Advanced Technical Training two weeks ago, and folk got a better look at the future of NetWare. David Kearns got wind of some trends and wrote about it.
In other news, iFolder 3.0 will never be ported to NetWare. This is a product that began life on NetWare and has now left it. Signs of the times.
Time to start really boning up on bash scripts and the Linux driver model.
That's not as troubling as the report I got from longtime reader Lewis Rosenthal about his trip to Provo for a training session, which included a discussion of the Open Enterprise Server (OES) roadmap. Rosenthal wrote: "I just thought I'd share with you a little bit I picked up while attending the OES Roadmap today, at ATT Live, here in Provo." Sounds good. But he gets right into the troubling news: "I can say without much doubt that NetWare - as we know it - will be vanishing in the next few years. Sometime after Cypress ships (the next version of Open Enterprise Server), Novell will be rolling out NetWare 'viX'. This will be a specially optimized version of NetWare to run in a virtual session on the Linux kernel, allowing 'legacy' NetWare NLMs to run in such an environment until such time as these applications can be migrated to OES Linux natively."While I had rumors that the next version of NetWare would run inside a VM, this is the first solid word I've heard. It also tells me that the next version of OES, presumably 2.0, will not include a new NetWare kernel like I had predicted. Darn those rose-colored glasses anyway. Confirmation of this will most assuredly be given at BrainShare this year.
In other news, iFolder 3.0 will never be ported to NetWare. This is a product that began life on NetWare and has now left it. Signs of the times.
Time to start really boning up on bash scripts and the Linux driver model.