Novell Chief Says Directory Will Be Next Wave
Eric Schmidt, Novell's chairman and CEO, said during a keynoteWednesday at Compaq's Innovate Forum '99 partner conference his company is moving its business to a core technology that will focus on electronic identification.
"We are transitioning from the NetWare base, which you all know well, to directories and from directories to directory applications and from directory applications to defining identities," he said.
Schmidt, whose company has become a critical partner with Houston-based Compaq in the high-end enterprise space, spoke about development work both companies have done in developing caching servers for networks, among other things.
"Forty-two percent of all [Compaq] ProLiant servers land in Novell accounts," he said. Thirty-five percent of NetWare installations ship with Compaq servers, and 40 percent of NDS installs move on Compaq systems, he said.
Schmidt also said the e-business transformation eventually would lean on technology that Novell produces: directory services. "Directories will be the platform that supports the next wave," he said.
The Innovate Forum '99 conference, being held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, is the largest partner conference held by Compaq.
Later on Wednesday, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates is scheduled to give the conference's closing keynote address.
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