From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 13:09:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA18401 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:09:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from foo.bar.com (F181-169.net.wisc.edu [144.92.181.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18393 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:09:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@foo.bar.com) Received: from localhost (jesse@localhost) by foo.bar.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA00425; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 03:11:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 03:11:53 -0600 (CST) From: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" Reply-To: zaphod@imailbox.com To: Davies cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question? In-Reply-To: <199712192000.MAA20376@concord.televar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Davies wrote: > Hello I am the system's administrator for a hearing aid company and we > currently run novell 3.12. We are out growing our system I am looking at > FreeBSD. I am wondering if we can use the same novell applications for > windows and dos if I upgraded to FreeBSD. Do I need the Novell Patch from > Netcom or will it work just fine. Can any software that supports dos and > windows be run off FreeBSD Server. Do I need to contact our hearing aid > software providers about this? > > I would like a prompt reply. Thank you For your time. > > Jeffrey Davies > davies@televar.com FreeBSD is a unix based operating system, and it is very different from Novel DOS/MS-Windows. It will not run the same software as Novel DOS/MS Windows. There is work for DOS/Windows emulators, but I don't think they are ready for full time commercial application yet. :( Your software provider might have software that runs on BSD-UNIX, you'll have to contact them about that. There is also a large quantity of free software (like/for freebsd) that includes wordprocessors, databases, spread-sheets, etc... but if you have specific software from the hearing aid company you might have to look into a commercial operating system, such as Novel Netware or (gasp) MS-Windows. However, If you want a NFS server, or a Server for E-mail, WWW, etc... freebsd would work very well (and you should be able to use it with your other network... research required...) Good luck, Jesse Kipp zaphod@imailbox.com