Dialog between connections

[Jonathan Morton]

>Alternatively, you could throw off the shackles of MS and run
>Novell.  Admin activities are easier, you can do more with a less
>beefy box, and a quick "Hey pal, the server is going down and if
>you don't close you're files you'll be hosed" message is built in.
>You just go to "Network Neighborhood" on your client machine,
>right click on the Server's icon and select "Send Message".
>
>And re-booting our Novell boxes is a rare thing here... a very rare
>thing indeed.  We're talking months of uptime with reboots being
>caused by power failures lasting longer than the UPS's we have or
>changes in hardware that we need to plug in.

Or, alternatively, you could run a Linux OS on your existing x86 hardware -
at least as efficient and stable as the Novell stuff (which I know nothing
about - knowing my luck someone will tell me it IS Unix-based hehe) and
free, and also comes with messaging capabilities built-in (talk, tel et
al).  As someone mentioned earlier, the Samba package can also talk to
Wintel users.  In fact (i'm dying to try this out as soon as i can get this
g!d-d___ed NIC to register in it) i think it also supports AppleTalk for
all your Mac users out there :D

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