* NetWare-friendly products from Idokorro, HP and Ricoh
Enough with all the folks saying bad things about NetWare and other Novell legacy products (including Novell itself). Today I want to mention, and highlight, a few companies that still think that their products need to work in a NetWare environment in order to be successful. They’re in no particular order, and I’m not even saying they’re the tops in their field – or anything else about them except that they claim to support NetWare. You’ll need to check reviews of the products (Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides is a good place to start) to see if they’ll do both what they advertise as well as provide you what you need.
Idokorro Mobile recently announced that its Mobile Desktop now supports Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson smart phones, in addition to the BlackBerry devices that have been supported since Mobile Desktop’s launch in March 2006. Mobile Desktop allows people to use their wireless handhelds to view the screen and control the mouse and keyboard of remote computers that are running Windows Terminal Services, Remote Desktop, or that have a virtual network computing server.
Mobile Desktop can be used to connect to practically any kind of computer including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Novell Netware, QNX, and OS/2. With Mobile Desktop, users can troubleshoot issues on remote computers, access files back at the office, provide remote support, or access any application that is traditionally used on a desktop computer, all from their wireless handheld devices. Mobile Desktop also supports SSH connection tunneling for greater security.
HP’s StorageWorks MSA1000 is a 2GB Fibre Channel storage system that is aimed at the entry-level side of the midrange market. It can control up to 42 drives, which equates to a capacity of around 12TB. It supports Windows 2003 (both 32 and 64 bit), Windows 2000 and NT, NetWare, Linux, Tru64 Unix, Open VMS and HP-UX. It provides a transmission rate of up to 30k I/Os and a throughput of up to 200MB. It supports 14 one-inch drives and either 1GB or 2GB fabric switches or hubs in a 4U rack space.
Ricoh has released the Aficio SP 8100DN, a high-speed, black and white network printer for demanding printing environments. The Aficio SP 8100DN expedites the printing process with the ability to produce 45 pages per minute with a first time print speed of six seconds or less. Additionally, this monochrome printer features multiple paper trays that can store various sizes of paper and has an overall capacity of 3,550 sheets.
Operating systems supported are: Windows95/98SE/NT4.0/2000/Me/XP/Server 2003; Netware 3.12, 3.2, 4.1, 4.11, 5.0, 5.1, 6; Unix (using Ricoh Unix filter); Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9, and Enterprise; Mac OS 8.6-9.2x, OS X 10.1 or later. Oops, no SuSE!
These products are only three of the dozen or so announcements I’ve seen this month. There are still a few people out there who think NetWare installations are alive and kicking!
