...Yeah, but think about it. Novell's targets for Netware 6 are people who really need the power Novell puts out. I mean, I've been told that Formula One racers use Novell to monitor their cars! Since anything can be represented as a leaf in an NDS tree, they can use Netware to poll sensors all throughout the car, in real time. That's not a use most people would encounter, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Also, most people don't realize that Netware is a Network Operating System. The question about Netware being able to "go online" is a great example. You can put a Netware 5.x/6.x server on the internet, and I think there's a TCP/IP stack available for some earlier versions (correct me if I'm wrong), but to my knowledge there's not a web browser or any other client application available for Netware. But, once it's on the internet, it can certainly make an excellent web/FTP/database/file/whatever server you'd want it to be. Unlike Microsoft's current server offerings, you can't really use Netware as a daily desktop, ie, mail, web, word processing, etc.

...That's what I'm aware of, at least.

As of NetWare 6.1, there is a web browser ;-). It's Java based; and it's mostly used for reading HTML Based documentation (not on the Internet). It would be a pretty poor browser to use for everyday purposes :p .

While Novell is great, Windows Server 2003 is pretty nice ;-). What should companies use? The right tool for the job. 'nuff said.