Novell Alum. Turns to Former Employer
When he left Novell, former executive vice president Mark Calkins didn't depart
on the best of terms. Now, however, he is relying on his former employer to help
open doors for his new company, NetVision Inc. of Lindon, Utah. NetVision is
the developer of Synchronicity, which provides a single point of administration by
integrating the directory services in Windows NT, NetWare 4, IntranetWare,
NetWare 3, Lotus Notes and any LDAP-compatible directory into a single
global directory. NetVision beat Novell to market with an NDS utility that lets
administrators use NDS on Windows NT networks, and the NetWare 3.x
version is about to enter beta. Already, more than 100 resellers nationwide have
expressed interest in the company's technology. NetVision believes its product to
be superior to Novell's Tabasco product, which, though provides similar
functionality, is not yet widely available. Furthermore, Synchronicity will likely
beat Tabasco to NetWare 3.x, Unix and Notes, says Calkins, chief executive of
NetVision. The Notes version, he adds, may turn out to be an unexpected
bonanza for NetVision. Fortunately for the company, Novell itself is recognizing
that fact. It is allowing Calkins and NetVision to use Novell's own facility in the
North East to demonstrate its Synchronicity product to prospective buyers in
New England.
T.C. Doyle |
