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Date: 25 September 2002 12:50:00
Once upon a time, a company called Novell came up with a way of connecting PCs together, which they called NetWare. And a certain Scottish University found that NetWare was a good way to provide staff and students with certain services which they required. So much so, that the University boasted that they had the biggest installation of NetWare around. But PCs had their own way of taking to each other, called MicroSoft Networking. And the University found that the only way to keep lots of PCs happy was to install MicroSoft Networking as well. And it was decreed that there was not enough resource to support two network operating systems.
I had better not say more, because the decision has yet to be taken, but it seems to be fairly clear which way things are going. Thanks, Chris and Karin, for your comments. Watch this space.
Secondborn had a temperature this morning. But neither I nor my wife can be spared from our jobs, so I took him to nursery, anyway, with a spoonful of Calpol to cool him down. He hasn't finished his course of antibiotics, so I don't suppose it would have done any good to take him to see the doctor. I hope that he's OK.
I finished reading "The Visit" over lunch. The final chapter goes a long way to answering the question which appeared a few days ago in this very wiblog,
Chas