<OT> Re: address info / ldap question

[Tim Wunder]

On 3/14/2003 10:15 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> 
> 
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>> On 3/14/2003 10:00 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to
>>>> install Novell on my server for this :)
>>>>
>>>> BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's 
>>>> biggest
>>>> single client. Sounds odd to me.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003
>>>> 22:08:14+0800 Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually... If you hurry you can get Novell's eDirectory with 250,000 
>>> user licenses for free.
>>>
>>> http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/promo.html
>>>
>>
>> What's "Linux 8.0"?
>> http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/quicklook.html
>> <quote>
>> In addition to supporting Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) 
>> and many other existing Internet standards, eDirectory runs on more 
>> network operating systems than any of its competitors. Specifically, 
>> eDirectory runs on the following platforms:
>>
>>     * IBM AIX
>>     * Linux 8.0
>>     * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
>>     * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
>>     * Novell NetWare 5.x and 6
>>     * Sun Solaris
>> </quote>
> 
> 
> I think they mean Red Hat 8.0... I think its officially only certified 
> to run on Red Hat.
> 

Cripes, they bothered to put "Microsoft" in front of "Windows" and 
"Novell" in front of "NetWare" and "Sun" in front of "Solaris", why 
couldn't they be bothered to put "RedHat" in front of "Linux"?

It just fries my goat when I see that...

Tim