Today’s Large, Small business and home office NAS boxes are similar to Netware, simple we based management. NAS is hot because of the simplicity. OES is big and complex and that has slowed its growth. A general Admin should be able to use the product without having to know the back end details, Netware was much closer to a simple, effective appliance than today’s OES. NetApp, QNAP, Synology, ect. Are all in the space Netware forged and left behind.
OES is powerful and flexible. Let’s focus on efficiency and simplicity of implementation and management. Let’s not force Linux knowledge in order to manage these systems.
by: Marty M. | over a year ago | Other
Comments
...if this means OES as an appliance - I vote for it
Mind that compared to NetWare OES can do a lot more stuff that was never possible on NetWare. Linux is just a big candy box:) I fully agree that the core of OES (a file server) should be much more simplified and have a much more consistent user experience. I've been thinking about this for a while and came up with this idea to "Make OES core components open source and part of SUSE" @ https://www1.v1ideas.com/MFI/novell-oes/Idea/Detail/1500
There is quite some reasoning behind that but comes down to this: if the core services are open source and can be supported on multiple distributions (prefer to start with SLE, LEAP and openSUSE) this would allow Micro Focus OES to get more time to spend on the user experience and usability of OES and other collaboration products like Filr/Vibe/iPrint and integration of those instead of the platform specific stuff.
I agree with this idea -- a lot of it can be done through improving the management tools (iManager, NoRM, DNS/DHCO Console). Appliancizing is attractive, but I also want to be able to run code off OES similar to a standard Linux box (PHP, Python, Mono, etc.) so it is tricky.