Novell To Port NDS To HP's Unix -- Next step toward 'universal' directory
March 10, 1997, Issue: 621
Section: Top Of The Week
Novell To Port NDS To HP's Unix -- Next step toward
'universal' directory
By Monua Janah and Caryn Gillooly
Novell's campaign to port Novell Directory Services to all major
operating systems will move forward this week with an announcement that
Hewlett-Packard will bundle the enterprisewide repository of network
resources with HP-UX, sources close to the companies say. Novell will
follow that news with several other product announcements at its
Brainshare developers' conference, March 24 through 28 in Salt Lake
City.
HP will become the second major Unix vendor, after the Santa Cruz
Operation, to bundle NDS on its operating system. Novell is racing to get
its technology widely adopted in an effort to create a "universal" directory
for networks. Ed Vaccaro, CIO of business consultants Booz, Allen &
Hamilton, a long-time NetWare customer, uses NDS on NetWare for file
and print resources but has started using Netscape Communications'
Directory Server on Solaris as an E-mail directory. "I'm not sure whether
we will go with NDS or with Netscape" forthe firm's intranet, Vaccaro
says. "It depends on how compatible they are with other systems."
At Brainshare, Novell will lay out a road map for IntranetWare, which
bundles NetWare with Internet technologies. Novell and Sun
Microsystems will unveil tools for developing Java applets that run on
IntranetWare and use NDS. Novell will also announce enhancements to
NDS that will let it run more easily on WANs and better interoperate with
other directory services.
Novell will also announce a new architecture for ManageWise, its
network-management software, that will let customers store information in
a centralized database or distribute it among several servers.
"The No. 1 thing I'd put on a ManageWise wish list is a central database,"
says John-Eric Langdale, a network analyst at the University of California,
San Francisco. "We have 72 network administrators here. Today, if we
make a change, it's almost impossible to synchronize that."
SIDEBAR:Platforms On NDS
Operating System:NetWare
Status:Available now
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Operating System:SCO UnixWare
Status:Available now
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Operating System:HP-UX
Status:Bundling plan expected this week
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Operating System:Solaris
Status:In development
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Operating System:Windows NT
Status:Later this year
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Operating System:AIX
Status:Not available
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Data:Vendors, Industry Sources
Copyright r 1997 CMP Media Inc.
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