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To: Peter Connolly who wrote (20837)	3/8/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	of 42771

Peter, I will let the horse's mouth explain what is in NT 5.0. Following web site is Microsoft's overview of NT 5.0: microsoft.com Basics are that they will implement Active Directory Services (aka MAD), extend SMP support beyond 2 nodes and load-balancing service, implement many of the little things that restrict NT from being classified an Enterprise capable server (better fault tolerance, on-the-fly reconfigs, etc.), improve on Application development foundation, attempt to make the NT network C2 certified even if only to Orange Book level (currently IntranetWare is the only NETWORK level platform that is C2 certified). I believe that the published dates for NT 5.0 are for late 1998, but all rumors are that not to expect the production release until Q1-Q2 of 1999 and even that may be without MAD. To the amazement of the industry, Microsoft has still not provided any action plan to their Corporate customer on how they will handle Y2K with the current versions of NT and their back-office products. If I were an NT centric corporate customer, I would be very nervous as some of the Y2K impact will start to be felt as early as this year. I would hope Microsoft will not expect their customers to go to NT 5 as an action plan to resolving Y2K (they wouldn't be that stupid). Because even after NT 5.0 is released, the product is going to have to prove itself in the real world before any smart IT Director would seriously contemplate implementing NT 5 and MAD. (Look how long it took for Novell to pull their current clients to move from Bindery Services to NDS - they are still in the process of doing it and NDS is now the most mature production Directory Service in the industry). To be fair though, since Microsoft's up-coming MAD is not a true "federated directory service" and only a cleanup and enhancement of their current Domain architecture, the migration to the up-coming MAD should not be as painful. ToySoldier

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