Responding to the earlier
report from Novell, Mindcraft has issued a response.
“Mindcraft declined to answer who sponsored the testing for our
report because our client had not authorize us to disclose their
name. We have now been authorized to disclose that Mindcraft was
commissioned by Microsoft Corporation to produce an independent and
unbiased assessment of the file server performance of Windows NT
Server 4.0 and NetWare 5 using NetBench 5.01. Contrary to Novell’s
implication, who our client is makes no difference as to how we run
a test. I’d be willing to bet that Novell thinks that the
BorderManager report they hired us to produce is fair, accurate and
unbiased.”