Hi Joe: Let's change the theme tune from "Mission Impossible" to something that fit's the "Rock-the-Net" theme...like "Rocky", "Rock the Boat", "Rock-n-Roll". "Rockabilly" (rock w/ a twist of country).
Any other suggestions....
EKS
Notice that Netscape's Directory Service is also called "NDS"...
<Do you think they will utilize the Novell NDS as part of the Novonyx partnership?>
A very Interesting arrangement with Sweden.
Sweden Gets Wired With Netscape (04/03/97; 8:30 p.m. EST)
By Douglas Hayward , TechWire
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Netscape Communications is negotiating an innovative deal with the Swedish national postal service aimed at creating a national intranet covering the whole of Sweden.
Sweden Post said it plans to use Netscape's Communicator browser and SuiteSpot server software to offer Swedish households and small businesses intranet and Internet access services, according to observers familiar with the proposed deal, which is worth more than $10 million.
The postal service would use the Netscape Directory Services product to create a single "white pages" facility covering all Swedish households wishing to join the scheme, which would potentially create a national intranet, observers said.
All households joining the network would be given by Sweden Post electronic mailboxes and a copy of Netscape's Communicator browser software. The postal service would manage households' E-mail services in a manner similar to the way it manages paper-based mail services. Sweden's total population is about 8.8 million people.
The E-mail addresses issued by Sweden Post would mimick the real-life address of each participating household. The goal is to issue more than 1 million E-mail addresses by this summer, Sweden Post spokesman Jan Andersson said.
"As far as I know, this is the first time a PTT has offered this kind of service," Andersson said.
For households without networked PCs, Sweden Post would translate the incoming E-mail and send it as separate faxes or print out the messages and send them through the paper-based mail system, he said.
In addition to E-mail, services offered to users will include electronic shopping, Web access, Web publishing facilities and the ability to set up secure electronic trading outlets. The service will use 128-bit encryption software and digital certificates to ensure security.
The idea that each assigned E-mail address would be similar to the recipient's street address is troubling, said Ian Walden, a specialist in IT law for the London-based law firm of Tarlo Lyons. The plan may even violate the European data protection directive, a 1995 law that is in effect in all 15 nations in the European Union, he said.
"Is it necessary to make a direct link in the email address to the physical location? I think it's dangerous," Walden said, "and I would warn Sweden Post to reconsider such an approach."
Netscape, Mountain View, Calif., will supply Sweden Post with browser and server software for an initial fee of roughly $10 million under the proposed deal, which was agreed in principle early March but has yet to be made final. Sweden Post already uses Netscape's electronic publishing and merchant software in its Web-based electronic shopping mall -- known as Torget -- under a deal signed last year.
Sweden Post, which recently lost its monopoly of mail delivery services in parts of Sweden, wants to become a major player in the Internet services market to compensate for any decline in its traditional business as a result of the growth of electronic communications.
"Sweden Post realizes that either it gets into the electronic services market in a big way, or it loses a lot of business to Internet service providers. And for Netscape, deals like this with utilities are a perfect way to overcome Microsoft's greater marketing power among ISPs," the observer said. "Netscape believes if it can to sign up the utilities, it won't have to worry too much about the ISPs in Europe."
The initial licensing fee would not include the cost of future software upgrades nor the cost of royalty fees for copies of browser software distributed to households by Sweden Post. Lennart Gren, Netscape's director for the Nordic region including Sweden, declined to confirm that the deal had been agreed.
Netscape has been targeting utilities and telephone companies in Europe for some time. In February, the German national telco, Deutsche Telekom, said it would promote Communicator as its browser of choice. The telco added that it would use Netscape's intranet suite as its product of choice when building intranets for corporate customers.
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I can see why Netscape wants to keep their SweetSpot product and try to make it the "defacto" standard...What should Novell do? Remember the Deutsche Telekom deal, well if Novell can develop the 'hybred' SuiteSpot w/ NetWare technology we can still get the benefit of this deal!
EKS
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