Question

Many companies have come and gone in the NOS world. Netware was one of the premiere players in the game, giving Microsoft a run for their market share. What happened to that NOS?. For this homework, give a brief history of the change that caused them to lose their market. Could this happen to another vendor? Which ones?
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Answer 1

What is NOS?

A network operating system that specialized for network devices like routers switch and firewall.In past a operating

system with network capabilities we termed as network operating system just because they allowed PCs to share

files via networks.

History of Network Operating Systems:

Historically operating system with network stack allows personal computers to participate in client-server schema

where server enables more than one clients to share data .Some examples are Novell Net-Ware and Windows server

2003.There was a time where Net-Ware were growing rapidly in the market then ,it collapsed.

Reason for Net-Ware Failure:

• This company in the early 90's was big name in networking.The company was really big in Corporate Networking. NetWare held around 70% of the market share.The company was very successful due to it's flagship platform.But this also put the company at the gunpoint of Microsoft.That made things really worse for the company .
• The sense that they were competing Microsoft made them very arrogant in taking decisions.Also they captured a big stack of the market ,this was another reason for the arrogance.The closest competitor was Banyan with VINES operating system.
• Due to this arrogance they declared a multi-front war against Micro-soft ,just to become the next Microsoft.They brought Word-Perfect to compete with MS Word,same with excel and other applications.

Microsoft finally developed Windows NT which bit the Net-Ware. Over time the clear winner was

Windows NT. Losing all resources while fighting battles and changing the organization strategies quite a

few times,the company slowly turned into a stage from where there is no turn around.

What is the current Situations:

There is a boom in the market for online organizations.There are lots of new startup companies growing up.All of these

companies need low cost Network Operating Systems due to lack of funds.There are two types of systems.Those are

Open Source and Proprietary OS.

In today's age there is a surge for open source networks.There are lots of Organizations that provide these like Broad-

Com and Ip-Infusion .The benefits are these are free of charge and with source code and we can freely modify the

software implementation.

The other type of system is Proprietary OS whose examples are Windows NT and Cisco.The

benefits of these are that they are paid and we can't modify the code and licence required to run the software.

If the same as Net-Ware can occur?

We have to understand that micro-soft is a big company with really deep pockets .In this field if some company

comes with innovation and gives a fight to Micro-soft two thing can happen either they will buy the company or Micro-

Soft will try to create problems for that company.So the same situation can arise again,but it depends on the company

authority as how well they can handle the organization.

//If you have any doubts feel free to comment//