In regard to: Re: [Networker] Moving away from Networker, Dave Mussulman...:

So, I called out the pink elephant in the room -- I didn't pretend my
list to be complete.  Tim, what issues would you add to my email?  You
might be surprised they apply for many other sites.  That's the true
power (and value) of this list.

* Support for NetWare.  Legato let the NetWare client (which was flakey
  even when it was new) languish virtually unmaintained for years.  They
  have put some effort into a true v7 client, thanks in no small part to
  pushes from people on this list (George R. being #1), but it still
  lags way behind the other clients.  It's even on a different development
  cycle (updated versions release at a different time than all the other
  platforms that release a 7.2.2 or a 7.3.1 simultaneously).  Most of the
  people that have posted about the v7 NetWare client have talked about
  having to downgrade NLMs and stand on one leg while chanting to get the
  thing to work.  That's not the kind of client parity our site is looking
  for.

  If EMC doesn't believe it's in their business interest to continue to
  develop a reliable product for Novell's offerings, then fine, but at
  least be honest about it.  Tell the customers "Novell's market share
  sucks, it's not worth our time, we're EOL'ing the client", so that
  the customers can make some decisions about what to do.  The kind of
  limbo customers with NetWare clients are kept in is very frustrating.

* Security.  I can't be specific, but EMC's response to security problems
  in the product hasn't filled me with confidence.  We're talking about
  an application that could give an intruder (or an insider with a grudge)
  the keys to the kingdom, so I have extremely high expectations regarding
  the application's security and how EMC as a company handles security
  problems.  Those expectations haven't really been met in the past.

Tim
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