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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Jim McCormack who wrote (21752)4/22/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: Peter Connolly  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
Hi Jim

I can't see how you come to your conclusion of HP snubbing NDS in favour of LDAP - they're totally different types of technologies. That's like saying 'HP snub DNS, promote TCP/IP' (huh?) Makes no sense to anyone who knows *anything* about how these things work.

NDS is so feature rich that it can have multiple 'personalities' grafted onto it. Look at the RADIUS modules that expand NDS to support secure dial-in sessions, the LDAP module that allows NDS to translate to LDAP attributes and in the future - who knows? Whatever MSFT do regarding directory services, NDS has been there first, and Novell know how to make their directory look like whatever customers want. (Take NetWare 5, where DNS and DHCP are incorporated into the directory - major boon for anyone who's ever had to assign an IP address to anything). HP's decision is for one aspect of a technology, one that Novell supports TODAY! Show me anyone else's support of LDAP as complete as Novell's, including Netscape's, and I'll point out a half-assed directory service/access protocol - just doesn't fly TODAY, because they haven't been through the pain barrier.

I'd be willing to hazard a guess that a lot of those HP customers will have an NDS directory running in the background, with LDAP being used to access it. It's about the only Directory Service that works properly today...

Yours respectfully, with a large amount of experience in this area..

Peter
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