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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (30031)1/23/2000 9:13:00 PM
From: jwright  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
PJ said

>> Another thing that's completely from LEFT FIELD - you do not need to know which server an NDS object is on to access it. In fact, an NDS object can be found on any number of servers that hold a "replica" of that portion of NDS. Replicas are actual copies of the NDS information, broken up into smaller, more manageable pieces and strategically positioned throughout your network for many reasons (increasing user peformance and fault tolerance are 2).

Therefore I do not need to know what server holds the NDS information but rather that from my position in NDS, I have enough information to find that object through NDS itself. There's a slew of technical reasons that MSFT boldly passes over that in reality make their claim rather misleading. <<

You do have to be connected to a server that holds that information. How do you get connected to that server? Currently Novell's solution works okay for corporate customers managing their own tree but doesn't work very well across trees. How do you find that other tree without calling and asking someone their tree structure and naming scheme. NDS naming is not globally unique. This is why the Internet and web-browsing work today by being tied into the DNS Domain naming scheme. Novell has these problems because it was originally tied to IPX and local lan environments where this problem didn't exist. This is definitely a case where Microsoft coming late to the party has an advantage in implementing a naming scheme consistent with what is being used on the Internet.

Later

Jimmy
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