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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19175)	12/18/1997 11:13:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello all, Another interesting subject ... We have heard a number of interesting rumours about our NDS for NT solution. It seems that executives in Redmond are not happy at all with what we did. How could we develop a solution, and be fully compatible and backwards compatible, and ship in early 1998 ... when the owners of the platform (Microsoft) won't be able to deliver until 1999? Can you say "poor planning"? Customers are realizing that we have now provided an incredible, and complimentary, technology that provides functionality today that Microsoft is promising in 1998 ... oh no, they now say 1999. A couple other things to think about ... all of the advanced features promised by ActiveDirectory and NT v5 are only available to customers after they upgrade everything in their network. And once they enable these advanced features, there is no going back ... you can not uninstall! No backwards compatibility. This was told to all developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Oh yeah ... a co-worker at Novell reminded me the other day of a really important fact: Microsoft customers are going to upgrade to NT v5.0, and maybe have time for one service pack ... in 1999. Are you going to trust Microsoft to have completed all the Year 2000 testing by then? Let's see ... first version ... maybe some patches ... millions of new lines of code ... no turning back once you enable the new ActiveDirectory features ... Sure ... go for it! ;-) I think this puts NT v5.0 rollouts into the new century! Scott C. Lemon