In the 90's Microsoft recognized the dominanance of Novell's LAN protocols in the customer base and did their usual trick of seeming to implement something compatible while rigging in gratuitous incompatibility to sway developers to the Microsoft way of doing things.

Even so Novell's Netware ruled in application support from the backend databases of Oracle to frontend multiplayers games such as Doom. To suggest that Novell (whose Netware protocols were running under DOS and Unixware, and who supplied compatible clients on Mac, Windows, and OS/2) could not mount a credible offering as to middleware is to forget who really had the upper hand on the LAN at the time.

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