<OT> Re: address info / ldap question

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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...

<me too>
just ignorant marketing types mostly who think Redhat = Linux.

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