Sandy Stevens 01 Jul 1998 If it's not broken, why fix it? Thousands of NetWare 3 administrators have asked this question when considering whether or not to upgrade to intraNetWare. NetWare 3 continues to maintain significant customer loyalty and to add value to companies, as proven by an installed base of approximately 1.5 million servers worldwide. To address the needs of companies that have chosen not to upgrade to intraNetWare at this time, Novell has released NetWare 3.2, which provides both updates and enhancements for existing NetWare 3 servers. MORE RELIABLE AND EASIER TO MANAGE Whether you are planning to install a new NetWare 3.2 server or to upgrade from NetWare 3.11 or NetWare 3.12, you will find that NetWare 3.2 offers several features that make it worth the time and money. (For more information about various NetWare 3.2 purchasing options, see '.) For example, NetWare 3.2 delivers the following features: • NetWare 3 updates • Year 2000 updates • Network management utilities • Updated 32-bit client software • Two versions of Netscape Navigator • Two-user version of intraNetWare NETWARE 3 UPDATES For years, NetWare 3 administrators have faced a continuous deluge of updates, including patches; fixes; and LAN, WAN, and disk driver updates.

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Although these updates are available free through Novell's Support Connection World-Wide Web site (), keeping track of these updates can be an enormous management task. Most NetWare 3 administrators have been forced to take a reactive approach to updates--first encounter a problem, and then see if an update is available to fix the problem. NetWare 3.2 offers a solution to this dilemma by providing all of the current updates in one convenient package.

With NetWare 3.2, these updates are automatically applied, eliminating the need for you to locate and download updates as problems occur. YEAR 2000 UPDATES You have probably heard a lot of horror stories about computer systems worldwide coming to a screeching halt on January 1, 2000 because these systems are not designed to support a four-digit date format. (For more information about the year 2000 problem, see 'Exterminating the Millennium Bug Before It Wreaks Havoc on Your Company's Network,' NetWare Connection, June 1998, pp. 8-20.) Fortunately, you don't need to worry about your company's NetWare network: Novell has conducted extensive product testing to validate that the latest versions of most of its products are year 2000 ready.

(For more information about Novell's year 2000 efforts, see 'Novell's Project 2000: Making Novell's Products Year 2000 Ready,' NetWare Connection, June 1998, pp. ) However, Novell is providing optional year 2000 updates for some of its products, including NetWare 3.

According to John Canfield, Novell's year 2000 marketing manager, these updates 'are not critical to the function of the operating system. Most of the problems we found are date display issues for which we have released the updates.' To make it easy for you to apply the optional year 2000 updates for NetWare 3, Novell has included these updates with NetWare 3.2.