Novell, Netscape Create New Company
By Michael Kanellos & Mary Jo Foley
Mountain View, Calif.
4:00 p.m. EST Thurs., March 20, 1997
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Tomorrow Netscape Communications Corp. and Novell Inc. will
announce a new partnership company, Novonyx, which will be
composed of programmers from both vendors.
The new venture will be devoted to porting SuiteSpot and other
Netscape products to Novell's IntraNetWare platform, sources said.
It also will work on other joint products.
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. will make a partnership
announcement of their own tomorrow. The two are submitting to the
Internet Engineering Task Force a specification for an LDAP
Multimaster Replication Protocol. The two will advocate that the
spec be incorporated into the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol IETF standard.
"The protocol will allow the replication of data going into a directory
into multiple masters, which are servers that are the target for storing
data," said Enzo Sciano, group product manager for Windows NT
Server with Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. "Today the LDAP
standard is only single mastering, so if your server goes down, you're
hosed."
Both Netscape and Novell are backers of LDAP and are evolving
their directory services to be in lockstep with the IETF standard.
Novell and Netscape have been working more closely together in
recent months, and are anticipated to be even closer partners with
Java backer Eric Schmidt, former Sun chief technology officer, now
at the helm of Novell.
Earlier this month, Novell was one of a group of more than 40
companies that agreed to work on a set of open industry standards
for enabling extranets. Novell, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp.,
Sun Microsystems Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc. and others agreed to
support a number of existing standards that will be part of
Crossware, including LDAP, S/MIME, X.509 and vCard.
Novell and Netscape are also collaborating with IBM, Lotus
Development Corp. and Sun Microsystems to create an Internet
Training and Certification Consortium, plans for which were
announced late last year. Neither Netscape nor Novell officials
would comment on the details of the announcement.
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