NetWare Working state Discontinued Source model Initial release 1983 6.5 SP8 (last) / May 6, 2009; 8 years ago ( 2009-05-06) English type Default, Official website NetWare is a discontinued computer developed by It initially used to run various services on a personal computer, using the network protocol. The original NetWare product in 1983, supported clients running both and, ran over a proprietary star and was based on a Novell-built file server using the Motorola 68000 processor, but the company soon moved away from building its own hardware, and NetWare became hardware-independent, running on any suitable Intel-based system, and a wide range of network cards. From the beginning NetWare implemented a number of features inspired by and systems that were not available in its competitors. In the early 1990s, Novell introduced separate cheaper networking products, unrelated to classic NetWare. These were NetWare Lite 1.0 (NWL), and later Personal NetWare 1.0 (PNW) in 1993. In 1993, the main product line took a dramatic turn when Version 4 introduced (NDS), a global similar to the that would release seven years later. This, along with a new e-mail system,, application configuration suite,, and security product were all targeted at the needs of large enterprises.

By 2000, however, Microsoft was taking more of Novell's customer base and Novell increasingly looked to a future based on a. The successor to NetWare, Open Enterprise Server (OES), released in March 2005, offered all the services previously hosted by NetWare v6.5, but on a; the NetWare kernel remained an option until OES 11 in late 2011.

The final update release was version 6.5SP8 of May 2009; Netware is no longer on Novell's product list. NetWare 6.5SP8 General Support ended in 2010, with Extended Support until the end of 2015, and Self Support until the end of 2017. The replacement is. Battle Gear 2 Ps2 Iso Torrents. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] NetWare evolved from a very simple concept: file sharing instead of disk sharing. In 1983 when the first versions of NetWare originated, all other competing products were based on the concept of providing shared direct disk access. Novell's alternative approach was validated by in 1984, which helped promote the NetWare product.

Novell NetWare shared disk space in the form of NetWare volumes, comparable to DOS volumes. Clients running would run a special (TSR) program that allowed them to map a local drive letter to a NetWare volume. Clients had to log into a server in order to be allowed to map volumes, and access could be restricted according to the login name. Tabledit Serial.