Flashback to the early 2000s, when this pilot fish is a network consultant at a state agency where Novell NetWare isn’t just a fond memory — it’s the order of the day.

“I was tasked to design an upgrade path from NetWare 4.11, running NetWare over IP, to their NetWare 5.1 pure TCP/IP stack,” says fish.

“One of the other state agencies had a 4.11 server that was running an accounting package that needed to be accessed after the upgrade, but had to be modified to run in compatibility mode that supported the new TCP stack.”

Fish talks to the other agency’s IT director, who tells him there’s no problem making the adjustments, but she’ll have her agency’s own consultant come in and do the work.

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