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To: ToySoldier who wrote (28055)	9/10/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Thor poses Open Source threat to Windows 2000 Wednesday, 1st September 1999 Timpanogas Research Group (TRG) announced yesterday its plans for an open source, NDS-compliant directory for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux. This is significant, not only because of the direct impacts it could have on the directory-based world. TRG have a reputation for building bridges between NetWare, Windows and Linux. Despite a "professional" relationship with Novell, TRG have a reputation of developing products which can be used to migrate away from Novell. It would seem that, this time, the company is turning its sights towards Microsoft. it-director.com

To: ToySoldier who wrote (28055)	9/10/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Letting this love-fest continue, I agree with all your points and let me just add one more--- There are almost certainly several people who's job is to figure out ways to crack various operating systems for use by organized crime. They are not hampered by lack of access to equipment or copies of operating systems and they have no preference for which OS to crack other than the one to which they are assigned. Given the Windows world, if they discover a bug in Windows that's exploitable it could be years before anyone finds out about it. With open source systems you have the advantage of lots of people looking for bugs in your source code and offering patches. In general, I would venture that Novell's source code is probably less buggy than Windows NT (just looking at their releases and managment). But NDS and Netware are probably in the same boat as Windows NT as far as how long it will take Novell to discover an exploitable bug and fix it-- there just aren't thousands of people looking at the source code and finding bugs.