To: Dan W. & Joe A. -- Is Novell completely abandoning NEST?
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What happened to NEST? Do you know that Novell is eliminating the entire group?
Dan Woodbury: techstocks.com
BTW, the NEST group is going to be dissolved, and absorbed, and
for those who can't find a job, they are o-u-t. Trust me, I know this.
Joe Antol: techstocks.com ******************************************************************
NEST, in my opinion, is important to Novell and they will continue to develop and support it. "... Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Lexmark, Canon, and Ricoh are just are few of the 50-plus NEST licensees..." lanmag.com
Examples:
1) "The development of the NEST Office SDK v1.0 brings us one step closer to our goal -- making NEST integration easier and faster for hardware manufacturers and extending the corporate network and intranet to include additional useful devices," said John Harris, director of office automation for Novell's Extended Networks Division. "NEST's success is evident -- currently, over 200 NEST-enabled products are in development and Novell expects more than one million NEST-enabled devices to be in use by the end of 1996." nocom.dk
2) NEST is a critical component of Novell's vision for pervasive computing, in which people will be able to connect with each other through the network to obtain the information they need anytime, anywhere. Pervasive computing is the key to achieving Novell's goal of linking a billion users by the year 2000. nest.novell.com
3) "... Novell, in its effort to expand networking functionality within the office environment, has acquired a patented methodology of embedding routing data into the fax communications environment. This patent defines and delivers fax routing methodologies through the use of the Group 3 T.30 standard protocols." nest.novell.com
4) "...According to Smith, the implementation of NEST is an important factor in helping Intel maintain its leadership role in this market segment. "The benefit to our customers is that they are assured of being able to take advantage of the latest technology available from Novell. The benefit to Intel is that we can continue to meet the needs of our customers." nest.novell.com
5) "...According to Weingard, the addition of the NEST Autoroute software represents only a small part of what Cheyenne can offer as a result of NEST. "NEST offers the potential to take the entire industry to the next level. The next phase will include intelligent devices that might, for example, allow users to enter codes that route a fax to a copier along with instructions to print 10 copies and staple them." In the case of standalone fax software such as BitWare, future capabilities could include the use of four-digit IDs to instruct a computer to print an incoming fax rather than storing it as a file."
"The implementation of NEST Autoroute software solves 90 percent of what people are asking for today," Ching says. "In the future, we can provide capabilities that neither we nor our customers have even imagined. The possibilities are astonishing." nest.novell.com
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But...
"..Novell's goal of linking a billion users by the year 2000," seems overly optimistic to me.
Comments?
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