Autor: Gregorio Kus (Grego_at_RMnet.IT)
Data: Tue 10 Oct 1995 - 09:04:54 MET
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1. INSIDE VIEW: ART OLBERT SHARES HIS INSIGHT
We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Art Olbert, Vice
President
of LAN Systems, on a variety of topics that affect OS/2 Warp and LAN
Server products:
WW: What is your overall view of the industry?
AO: We have a tendency to look at desktops and clients as similar to
servers. This isn't true from a technological perspective, nor
from a marketing perspective.
Novell is the current leader in the server industry. But with so
many changes taking place in the industry, the marketplace is in
turmoil and Novell's position is at risk. This presents IBM and
others with the opportunity to overtake Novell.
WW: What are some of the changes taking place, and how do they
affect
our position in the marketplace?
AO: LANs today are predominantly workgroup sales. This year,
three-quarters of our (server) sales have been for LAN Server
Entry, our workgroup product. OS/2 products are also strong in
the area of Enterprise Sales, an area where Novell is weak.
Later
this week, we're announcing a Beta of Directory and Security
Services (DSS), a feature that's very important to the
enterprise
market.
One important trend in the market is the shift from simple file
and print servers to application servers. NetWare products are
good file and print servers, but poor application servers.
OS/2 is an excellent application server, and is in fact the
leader
in this market.
Another shift that's occurring is away from writing procedural
applications to object-oriented applications. This is important
because Novell's Netware doesn't support distributed objects;
OS/2 will, and so will Windows NT. We have already demoed DSOM
(Distributed Systems Objects Model) on OS/2 platforms.
Finally, we are moving away from piece packages toward
integrated
packages. Today, a complete server system is usually assembled
using "pieces" from different sources. For example, you could
use
an operating system from one vendor, file and print management
from
someone else, and systems management services from other
sources.
By offering an integrated package of basic server functions, we
give our customers the option to choose a single product from
a single vendor. OS/2 Warp Server (currently in Beta testing)
is our integrated offering.
All these changes bode well for OS/2 products because we are
well positioned to take advantage of them.
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