Now if we could only get the Gartner Group to do a +'ive to counter..
the Forrester -'ive .........
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Monday, September 30, 1996
"Slate'' to Beef Up NT Management
By MARCIA A. JACOBS
Microsoft is developing a management tool that analysts say brings Windows NT Server
closer to par with Novell's NetWare 4.1.
The tool, code-named "Slate,'' is being developed for Microsoft's forthcoming directory
service scheduled to ship with, or slightly before, the next version of Windows NT,
code-named "Cairo.'' It will include all the tools for managing NT Server as well, and will be
expandable with tools from third-party management software vendors.
"Basically it's an integrated common console. It integrates all the tools that are available
for NT Server'' with directory service management tools the company is currently
developing, said Enzo Schiano, a product manager for NT Server at Microsoft.
Schiano said Microsoft will make application programming interfaces (APIs) for Slate
available to third parties so that their management products can plug into Slate. He said
he does not know if Microsoft will license these APIs or give them away. Slate's product
manager, Victor Raisys, declined to comment on the tool.
Slate "sounds to me a lot like NWAdmin,'' said Neil MacDonald, senior analyst at Gartner
Group Inc., Stamford, Conn.
Indeed the two tools seem quite similar, although it's too early to say for sure since Slate
is not expected to ship until some time in 1997. NWAdmin includes the tools necessary
for managing NetWare networks as well as Novell Directory Services on one console, and
it is expandable with tools from third parties such as Oracle Corp. and Cheyenne
Software, said William Donahoo, director of product marketing for Novell's operating
systems division. NWAdmin can be run from any desktop on the network, as well.
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Joe <Sounds like more "Smoke" from Washington to me ... Cairo, Yeah..
IBIWISI !!!> |
