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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (22130)5/19/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: JP  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
Just in case this objective article hasn't been posted yet...

Directory Access Protocol

Date posted: Fri, 15 May 1998

Novell made sure it had a very visible presence at NetWorld+Interop this year. Novell has a
pretty compelling story to tell. Novell is leveraging the maturity of Novell Directory Systems
(NDS) and claims that Microsoft and its customers will have to go through years of painful
adjustment to get to a point where Active Directory becomes useful. It's true. Active Directory probably won't
be much more than a layer that hides the existing Windows NT domain model. People can't throw out their
domains overnight any more than Novell's customers could throw away their bindery when Novell introduced NDS.

You may find it odd, but I wonder if Netscape has the real answer. NDS supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP). StreetTalk supports LDAP. Active Directory will support LDAP. And Netscape Directory Server is built on LDAP.
Of the above Directory Servers, which do you think is likely to have the least dead weight for an Internet-centered future?

So here's what I'm suggesting: Why not simply rally around the X.500 Directory Access Protocol (DAP), of which LDAP is a
subset? The argument against DAP so far has been that DAP is too large. That's the reason they put the L in LDAP (the L
stands for "Lightweight"). So DAP is large. Does anyone really think Active Directory is going to be anything less than a
behemoth by the time it works?

It seems as if Unix is making a comeback, so why not migrate to a Unix-centered Internet standards-based infrastructure and
avoid the baggage of NDS, StreetTalk, and Active Domains? Or is that too radical?
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