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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (31200)	4/25/2000 3:29:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Scott..... >>Where Novell did not take advantage of this announcement is in the formation of an organization with their customers to define "standard" schema for various industries and purposes. This is exactly what Microsoft has done with BizTalk. If Novell were to involve their customers from the various industry segments, they could create the standard "schema packs" which would be the attributes of users in these various industries.>> BINGO!!!!! I have been waiting for the grass to grow and paint to dry on this one. Novell has been extremely possesive about NDS - as if it's God's gift to the future of intelligent net-based infrastructure. Meanwhile, Microsoft - even with Active-less Directory in an unfinished state - barnstorms their way into the financial industry and other verticals with Biz-Talk to proactively meet/great/help/serve/catylze the necessary change to get INDIVIDUALS off the dime. Microsoft has been so much better at doing the heavy-lifting tactical work with end-users. In light of my experience with Novell, I've come to appreciate more and more of the work Microsoft has done to reach out, listen and respond. At least with Microsoft you know who you are dealing with. With Novell, fewer customers even get to the dealing stage because from a marketing development point of view they've been so much weaker. These "new" attribute/schema-based languages will be defining and support this New Age of interoperability. Question: Where is Novell when it comes to defining leadership in these areas? I am interested in the ways in which Novell's technogy can be used to articulate, store and intelligently retrieve and filter personal information into and out of and between various applications which have common links to directory-based infrastructure. Thanks for the feedback Scott. Peace.