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To: Greg Jung who wrote (25829)	3/6/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) of 42771

Your post clearly shows that you are reading the future from past tea leaves. You clearly can't assume that for one moment that client/server based networking works best in a seperated "domain" structure that lends itself to more administrative overhead? You can distrubute all the clans you want and create "mini-admins" for these LAN clans too. That's what a NT only network NEEDS. That's why MSFT has the muscle to do that. It's the only thing it can do! If you think that in 10 years computing will be as it is today, then where did we leave innovation? (in the hands of MSFT?) The LAN is the past. The next wave of networking will be cross-platform, object-orientated, centrally managed WANs. By that I mean LANs will have to be inter-connected (VPNs, extranets, etc). And to do that, you will need a directory. Are you starting to see where this is going? LANs are closed off "communities" with limited resources and limited scope. You would have to replicate every database, every datastore, every email system just so that people in each LAN could have access to INFORMATION. That is what its all about no? Access? Information? Why go through that expense and headache when you could just create one inter-connected WAN whereby access to network services, data, resources etc is managed by a directory? I could write a book on this topic but I have limited space here so I won't but to give you some food for thought... Why not have a corporate network (a WAN) managed by NDS whereby all your databases were managed by DB admins in say Dallas but the data was available to each branch office. Then the email system could be based in Tampa and managed via the WAN by admins there. NYC could have corporate document management systems which would make information available to all branch offices and Los Angeles would handle Help Desk and Desktop management chores so on and so on. So while you are partly right with LANs you fail to realize the true nature of the beast. You need to have some glue to hold them together. Don't kid yourself for one moment into thinking that NDS is not the answer because it is. Until you have experienced it, you just have no idea of it's power. Peter Strifas

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