Re: If only...
A lot of people got a lifeline when Novell was going down the tubes and MS stepped up with NT and AD. I did a lot of Novell work but moved over to Unix land when Novell went south instead of taking the Windows route. I got nothing against MS server products, actually not that bad and it probably meant a lot of companies actually put in half decent setups with proper auth systems like AD, DNS and such like.
I know, MS is still the boogeyman of IT but the older I get the less beef I got with MS.