prime-- he was not talking either\or. He was talking both. And the more approaches to O\Ss you understand the more likely you are to learn others easier.

Novell INSTEAD of MS no, Novell plus MS yes,and go with what helps you most where you are at if you think you might want to break trend and stay there for more than 2-3 years. *nix and Novell took GENERAL ideas from each other, and knowing one will make learning the other easier.

IT is not anywhere near about the sheepskin itself solely, it is about adaptability and the ability to retain and communicate and acquire and use knowledge responsibly. (IT=Information Technology, a descendant of IS).

The biggest places to work use multiple platforms, and Novell, a *nix or two, and MS may all be in use for what they best do for least cost for fulfilling that function. Knowing MORE than one make you more valuable, knowing how they can interlink and be intersuable is the way to best overall success.

To head a multiplatform teacm or design a multiplatorm interoperative network you need to be able to think in many ways. And you need to be able to think in ways that to someone with a single O\S under his\her belt wouidl be so out-of-box for that person that he\she woudl think you are nuts until he\she sees it works and costs less for software end so better hardware can be used and the thing synergizes as far as economy of overall accomplishment of goals that can be all over the ballpark or even in the weeds as better ways to hit the ball further without straining physical resources come into existence by building multiplatform, interoperable, systems.

Understand that last sentence. IT is a knowledge use game and there is room for those who know multiplatform interoperability as those folks who do that right are very rare folks indeed.

John Danielson.