Use this version. Email this to a friend. For Microsoft Corp., Bellevue, Wash., the competition presents the firm with an opportunity to provide municipal government agencies with all the important software they need.
Government agencies are aware of the stakes.
But agencies have installed thousands of NetWare servers, and replacing them is no simple task. For the moment, coexistence, rather than obsolescence, seems the surest path. Microsoft is gaining momentum because customers' buying considerations have changed. But NetWare made its mark by offering organizations fast file and print services, which were once the key buying considerations. The city of Long Beach, Calif., like a number of local governments, determined that Windows NT is a stronger platform for application servers than NetWare.