NetWare uptime November 18, 2005
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , trackbackIt may not be fashionable to talk about tradtional NetWare anymore - but there is a vast installed base that is running this reliable NOS.
Novell Cool Solutions has been running a competition to showcase server that have been up for years.
My favourite is this NetWare 3 server - it’s been running for nine years:
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Notice there’s no NetWare 6.5 servers on the list ;-). I guess, though, none of them would have more than a year or two of uptime anyway, even if that were possible.
Too true - NetWare servers are doing more than ever.
I still know of a lot of NetWare 4.11 SFT III pairs running back in the UK. I installed these eight years ago - and the last time they were patched and rebooted (MS and IO engines!) was in mid 1999 for Y2K readiness.
These boxes run file, print and a BTREIVE database and never go down.
Modern NetWare 6.5 boxes run a lot of other functions - Java, ZENworks, GroupWise, portal - you name it. There are more moving parts - and more reboots for updates.