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To: rudedog who wrote (67358)	9/7/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Dear rudedog: Wouldnt it be cheaper to just buy a converter?? where will you be working? Must be outside of USA. JDN

To: rudedog who wrote (67358)	9/7/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 97611

more on cpq / novell announcement zdnet.com Novell, Compaq Team On Directory By Scott Berinato and Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller, PC Week September 7, 1999 1:50 PM ET Novell Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. today extended their 12-year relationship to broadly integrate Novell Directory Services into Compaq's hardware and software. Specifically, Novell will port NDS to Tru64 Unix, and Compaq will support NDS on all platforms on its ProLiant, ProSignia and Alpha servers. Compaq will also ship Novell's ZENworks desktop management software as part of its desktop and workstation computers. In addition, NDS will be integrated with Compaq's Insite Manager network management software. Broad cross-service and support agreements are also part of the deeper relationship, officials of both companies said. "This will be the first 64-bit port for NDS," said Compaq Senior Vice President Enrico Pesatori during a conference call. Pesatori and other Compaq executives emphasized NDS' cross-platform availability as one of its major selling points for customers with heterogeneous environments. Novell, for its part, is pushing the scalability of Compaq's Alpha-based servers as the ideal platform for delivering enterprise-level NDS-enabled applications. "We think the Tru64 NDS implementation may become a mainframe alternative," said Eric Schmidt, Novell's CEO. "Customers are deploying NDS but complaining they don't have it on every platform," he said. Schmidt noted that Novell already has demonstrated the ability of NDS version 8, code-named SKADS, to handle up to 1.6 billion transactions on Intel platforms. "On Alpha, we expect this to be quite a bit higher," Schmidt said. Compaq and Novell will also develop an application with Compaq's upcoming SSL acceleration card in which NDS will automatically forward security tasks to the card, where they can be processed faster on silicon than they could otherwise in software. The port of NDS to Tru64 Unix will occur early next year, officials said. Chris Stone, senior vice president at Novell in Provo, Utah, said the deal was a year in the making and caps a year in which the number of ISVs and partners for NDS rose from a dozen to nearly 200. Modesto revisited? The Compaq-Novell NDS development comes on the heels of announcements by Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. last week of their latest timetables for supporting Intel Corp.'s forthcoming IA-64 processor. Both Microsoft and Sun reiterated that they will have 64-bit Intel-based versions of Windows and Solaris, respectively, ready to ship whenever Merced does. Novell, meanwhile, is rethinking how and when it should release a full 64-bit implementation of NetWare, a company spokesman said. Earlier this year, Novell officials outlined the company's plans for 64-bit NetWare, code-named Modesto, which Novell promised would ship simultaneously with Merced. Intel is expected to ship Merced in the latter half of 2000. "We initially said we'd have a full 64-bit OS," said the Novell spokesman. "Now we're adopting more of an appliance approach. We'll come out with a 64-bit caching server, a 64-bit directory server ... ultimately, we'll have all of the components of a 64-bit OS." He said Novell was revisiting its 64-bit plans because the company decided customers really didn't need a 64-bit print server.