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To: Loring who wrote (26001)	3/12/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) of 42771

There are others developing "directory products" but no one has the experience and know-how that NOVL holds in this area. MSFT has well documented their efforts to get Active Directory working. We can point to their PR and their inability to even get beyond a first beta. Cisco is their partner in this endeavour. *side note- MSFT recently revealed they were acquiring Banyan for their Vines directory offering perhaps to incorporate this into their Active Directory services. I say perhaps only because we've yet to see anything definitive from MSFT. Oracle has announced their own Oracle Internet Directory based on their Oracle8i database. They have also announced they will be working with NOVL in making their offering compatible with NDS. In fact, NDS will now be able to use an Oracle8i database to store it's information. Netscape has Directory server which is a "meta-directory" in that is LDAP-based. While that's very good (LDAP being an open standard), I've read it's scalability issues are limiting, nowhere near the 1 Billion objects NDSv8 can hold. Also, NOVL's NDS will now support LDAP natively so anyone with Netscape Directory server can also work NDS into the picture and vice versa. IBM has a directory in the works (eDirectory?) which is another meta-directory. [Meta-directories are different from NDS in that they are usually designed and built with the idea of accessing one or more other directories which actually store information. They are generally viewed as bridges between to other directories like MS Exchange and a PDC Domain server or a database application and NetWare server. They don't actually hold any information natively but build a datastore from other sources.] I like to think of NDS much in the way MSFT had Windows at the beginning. NDS is the "platform" that will enable applications (such as ZENWorks) much like Windows relied on MS Word or MS Excel. If NOVL can make NDS "like" Windows in that regard and have people create vital apps that rely on NDS, you can well bet that NOVL will have a bright future. Peter Strifas

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