Brad, next week could be pretty good on the news front, since this is the key excerpt in your link:
"Novell also plans to release a single sign-on tool, which [Novell CEO Eric] Schmidt dubbed the single biggest problem customers face. Novell this week will launch the single sign-on product . . . ."
Novell is selling a directory service, which must keep track of a single user through all subsystems. It makes a great deal of sense that biometrics would solve this problem, and helps explain why Novell was part of the BioAPI alliance. The user's identity is linked to the fingerprint, providing a common authentication platform known to the Internet-level directory.
We are probably going to find ourselves in the position of having Novell, Oracle, and Computer Associates as networking resellers. Because BioLogon 2.0 will be smart-card enabled, and Windows 2000, among other systems, is heading to smart cards, the actual sales of Identix product in this area is probably connected to the release of BioLogon 2.0. The recent PR reference to 100 beta sites for version 2.0 further supports the breadth and importance of this product.
Why do a July 1999 network product launch with a 1998 component -- version 1.0 -- when the next generation software is this close? |
