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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Whitley who wrote (23864)	9/18/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Jack, MSFT's great X.500 directory is based on a fundamentally inferior "Domain" architecture and therefore is bound not to be great. X.500 simply means that the directory meets certain functional and operational guidelines. The X.500 designation by itself gives no evidence as to the true effectiveness, scalability, and scope of the directory. With Active Directory, MSFT is simply making some major face-lift repairs to a Domain system that everyone in the industry knows cannot be scaled for enterprise computing. It wont even come close to NDS regarding the maturity and scalability of the directory. The industry will realize it when Active Directory finally does come out - some year. MSFT does not want to do what NOVL gritted their teeth and did. NOVL realized that their Bindery Services were as weak as MSFT's Domains are now. So they first tried to do the face-lift job (like MSFT is doing now with Active Directry) by introducing Network Naming Services (NNS). It was a failure both marketing and functionally. So they bit the bullet and Overhauled their entire concept of network security system. They developed NDS. Now NOVL has lived through this tough migration to a true federated and object oriented Directory Services. MSFT is still in the denial stage with Active Directory and they believe that they can avoid the OverHaul by doing the Domain Facelift. MSFT will learn from their customers that the Active Directory FaceLift will not cut it. Toy