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Date:  Sat, 07 May 2005 00:29:54 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  OS/2 NetWare Users <os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2NetWare] Developer's conference in Dresden, Germany - July, 2005

Sorry for what seems to have been my loong hiatus from this list. Work 
has been keeping me quite busy these past few months...

As many of you know by now, my team has received the bid for Warpstock 
2005 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 6-9. If there's something any of 
you would really like to see at this year's event (whether NetWare or 
Open Enterprise Server related or otherwise), please let me know. I am 
planning to do a Wi-Fi clinic and perhaps another NetWare 
interoperability session, which may focus on dealing with pure-IP 
environments. I'm just ruminating right now, so feel free to jump in...

Anyway, the real purpose of this post is to let everyone know that I 
will be attending the conference mentioned in the subject. I will have 
the opportunity to speak one-on-one with several willing and able 
developers, and the first thing on my list will be an updated Novell 
client, perhaps akin to the Novel Client for Linux. SAMBA shares are 
great, and the NetDrive plugin does get the job done, but wouldn't it be 
nice to just have a client frontend which would authenticate to 
NetWare/OES and map drives, etc. like the old days???

Here's what I need from people on this list:

Let's go back through the features list we've kicked around before, and 
perhaps update it considering Novell's latest Linux-kernel push (though 
all my industry sources say that the NetWare kernel isn't going anywhere 
for quite some time, so none of us needs to worry needlessly!).

I also need an approximate count of stations which would be potential 
licensees for such a client, and we need to perhaps update our potential 
target pricing model. I seriously doubt that I'll be able to do this in 
an open source model, so there will be cost involved. However, depending 
upon the talent available and the location(s) of same, we may be able to 
do this economically.

Don't neglect other Novell technologies, as well: BorderManager VPN, 
GroupWise (aside from WebAccess, which does indeed work well from 
Firefox and Mozilla), etc.

-- 
Lewis
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