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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (30145)	2/1/2000 9:38:00 PM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Novell armor plates NT nets Firewall for NT manages bandwidth, supports NDS and LDAP but not VPNs By Ken Phillips for PC Week Labs January 31, 2000 12:00 AM ET zdnet.com

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (30145)	2/3/2000 9:39:00 PM
From: Spartex	Respond to of 42771

Novell set to roll out iChain By Scott Berinato, PC Week Online February 3, 2000 4:17 PM ET Novell Inc. next Tuesday will introduce its iChain e-commerce infrastructure initiative at an event in San Jose, according to sources. Though scant on details, the sources said iChain centers on Novell's NDS eDirectory as the central repository of data in an e-commerce deployment. But a significant amount of new code, mainly security and management software, will be layered on top of the directory, they said. XML will play a key role as the way data is recognized and transferred between the directory and the applications. Still, iChain will not see the advent of a bevy of new applications. Instead, Novell, of Provo, Utah, will provide hooks into companies' business-to-business supply chain software. Some of these companies are expected to be announced as partners at Tuesday's event, the sources said. Indeed, the sources said the initial product release will be targeted more at partners than at end users, providing as much integration into those partners' applications as possible. Deeper than BizTalk "The key to it is making the link between the existing commerce applications and the directory," said one source familiar with the launch, which Novell CEO Eric Schmidt will lead. Many observers have compared iChain to Microsoft Corp.'s BizTalk. But the sources said the two were not exactly parallel. "BizTalk seems to be much more about exchanging data between applications, through XML style sheets," one source said. "This is more about the underlying infrastructure." Novell officials would not comment on the Tuesday announcement. zdnet.com