To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16434 ) 1/20/1998 11:47:00 AM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Microsoft, Novell Trade Barbs zdnet.com The public barbs are in direct contrast to the increasing directory service cooperation that the two companies had been evidencing in recent months. Novell officials had backed publicly Microsoft's development interfaces for Active Directory, Microsoft's directory service architecture that will be at the heart of NT Server 5.0. Novell representatives had attended Active Directory Services Interface design previews. Both companies are on the record backing the Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). But with Novell's introduction late last year of Novell Directory Services (NDS) for NT, it seems as though the networking vendor may have wreaked havoc with Microsoft's plans to ultimately obviate the need for NDS. With NT Server 4.0, Microsoft had provided tools designed to let NT view Netware clients as part of an NT network. And as of NT 5.0, Microsoft has committed to providing a migration utility to move customers from NDS to Active Directory.
