In the moment we prefare to buy IBM instead to buy Mr William Gates
products. Therefore we still use Wordperfect. Maybe we're ready for a museum.

On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Tim Bosher wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Tom B wrote:
>
> > I am just as interested in the response to this query.  In addition, who is
> > running Blackbaud out there?  We are thinking of going with both the Raiser'
s
> > ......
>
> Funnily enough I put a similar query out yeaterday and had reply from
> Julia Moore at the Indianapolis Art Centre. They seem to like everything
> except the cost!
>
> Re WinNT vs Win/Novell (Steve Rooney's msg):
> Well we are broadly similar to Steve's environment (albeit a bit bigger)
> and have just gone through the process of selecting between NT and Novell.
> (We are currently using Novell 3.12/Windows For WorkGroups and Unix)
>
> We are going to retain Unix (for collection databases) and scrap Novell in
> favour of NT. User workstations will be a bit of mix for a while but will
> settle down to Win95 and NT workstation.
>
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with Novell 4.xx in fact it's apparently
> very easy to use and much less labour intensive than the 3.xx versions.
>
> However we have been watching a number of large NT sites very closely and
> are satisifed that it's a really solid product. One of the great
> attributes is the tight integration of all the Microsoft products and the
> fact that a significant part of the inbuilt functionality of NT is an
> extra cost in the Novell world. (and NT's a lot cheaper to start with)
> We also think MS Exchange is going to be very valuable to us.
>
> There's still a lot of,"NT isn't a real OS" comment out there, but look at
> the sales graph and the companies taking it up.
>
> The thing we'd really like to get away from is Windows 3.xx- it's really
> totally inadequate for 'power users' especially in concert with resource
> hungry products like MS Schedule Plus.
>
> there's alot of intersting 'case study' stuff on the Microsoft web site-
> which is of course biased.
>
> The big worry of course is that we're all getting more and more deeply
> locked into the Bill Gates view of the world!
>
>
> Tim
>
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