A lot of people don't know that Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2) has replaced NetWare. But OES2 is based completely on Suse Linux and installs as "add on" services to Linux. While on the backend, this means a major change in thinking as the infrastructure must be migrated from NetWare to Linux, it can be done completely transparent to the end users.

When you migrate NetWare to Windows, it requires a significant change/investment on the desktop. When going from NetWare to OES2, there is very little impact on end users. In fact, we have developed best practice methodologies that allow us to do a full migration on most server environments with approximately 1-2 hours of "actual" downtime at the most on any NetWare to OES2 migration.