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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (21754)	4/22/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Jim McCormack	Respond to of 42771

Scott: Here is my Source for Netscape DS search.netscape.com This is a very thoughtful well done arguement on why NDS and Active Directory are both sub components in a larger strategy. It is the basic Metadirectory schema with all proprietary solutions being linked by LDAP to formulate a larger all encompasing dirtectory. And by the way Netscapes Directory replicates... In fact they are according to the link - leading the standards based effort to define a spec relating to replications... Anyway the real point is that with Internets and Intranets taking off and Browser based software becoming the norm (Just as DOS was to Windows - Windows is to a browser - See Windows 98) What you have is a world where the Browser is the platform through which software is accessed. That software sits on an Internet Server (Intranet) running HTTP over TCP/IP and LDAP over TCP/IP. The directory has to manage all these Web apps written to DCOM and COBRA specifications... NDS can't do that - It has a proprietary client and the directory server has to be Netware - Not much good when it comes to controlling IIS and Linux Web Servers and Netscape Web Server etc.... Unless you are going to make NDS run on a Web server and release an NDS plug in for a Browser.... Now that would be exciting. That by the way is what Novell has to do to win! As for Netware - they already have done it. The world has moved on - The elements that will need controlling are now going to be Web Applets and Web Applications - Web Users - Not NT users or Novell users. Lets put it this way - You will not authenticate to a server when you log in - you authenticate to the network as you know - that network runs TCP/IP and LDAP and HTTP. It is going to have to have a directory to authenticate you same as it takes a DNS to locate a resource - an LDAP capable directory (LDAP Accessible if you prefer). SO when is Novell going to release NDS extensions to manage resources in the HTTP network with HTTP based agents and tools? When will NDS be rewritten in JAVA and released for IIS? When can we expect those ActiveX and Java client side extensions for our browsers? Might as well include the Web enabled interface for my browser to manage all this too while you at it.... We both know that is what it is going to take if NDS has any chance at being a de facto standard. NDS is a fine product today - but in the network that is rapidly emerging it has to stake a claim if it is going to remain relevant - Time to act! Thanks for the post Jim