My first internship was at a law firm just putting in their first Novell LAN. At my first real job, I put in the firm's first network, Novell of course. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the Novell network drivers were in Windows 95, indicating Microsoft knew where the enterprise market was.
I left a couple of years later when it was obvious the firm was going to move toward Windows NT for networking. It wasn't that I had anything against NT; the firm I went to work for already had NT in place. I just wanted to avoid the pain of converting 200+ users from one networking OS to another!
In the legal vertical, WordPerfect had a good strange hold with NetWare on the back end. It's interesting to see that the synergy of the Corel acquisition didn't really work out for Novell.
I left a couple of years later when it was obvious the firm was going to move toward Windows NT for networking. It wasn't that I had anything against NT; the firm I went to work for already had NT in place. I just wanted to avoid the pain of converting 200+ users from one networking OS to another!