We use Novell here and it works fine. Manage all the servers through remote console....manage user ID's and Profiles through console one which is awesome...and push patches or virus scans through login scripts when they log into novell client. Novell Bordermanager for the firewall which we just upgraded...it all actually works pretty well. I never had experience with it before but since i got a job here its been awesome. Very few problems. As well as security, we havnet had any compromises. But one feature i like is the "Intruder Lockout" which if a person gets the login wrong 3 times in a row on a specific machine, it locks out that profile and the user has to notify an administrator to unlock it. It specifies the IP that the logins were being attempted at to see who was doin it and if it was the right person and so forth. We've been fightin this sobig worm and blaster worm for the last week or two and we havnet really had that many infections, we've just been forcin virus scan to run in the login scripts, so virtually anyone connected to the network obviously has been scanned and cleaned. Might wanna just give novell a peak and see what u think...not a bad networking client/admin pack.