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To: Spartex who wrote (23950)	10/12/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

How Novell's intraNetWare Answers the IP Challenge Q: I heard that the new version of NetWare supports IP. How is it different from the previous version? What advantages does intraNetWare have over NetWare that's IPX? A: Chances are the network services for any large corporation in America were running entirely on Novell's NetWare software at some time or other, but that has changed drastically over the last few years. As Windows NT makes its move into the network market, the number of NetWare installations has decreased, and most corporations are now running mixed networks that include Windows NT and Novell NetWare. There are many reasons for this change. One of them is the fact that networks have moved from IPX to IP as the infrastructure, due to the shift in networking toward Internet-based technology. Novell has answered this challenge with its upgrade to NetWare 4.11, intraNetWare--a networking solution that lets IPX-based users gain access to the Internet. IntraNetWare includes a Web server and allows Web and FTP publishing. For those folks still running Novell's IPX networking services, intraNetWare provides an IPX/IP gateway that allows you to use TCP/IP services from workstations. This saves you from having to configure all of your workstations with TCP/IP for Internet-related services. The IPX/IP gateway is integrated with Novell Directory Services (NDS) to allow implementation of security and access controls for intranet and Internet use. This includes security features such as Internet services and time-of-day access. Organizations that use IPX networks and the IP gateway are protected from intruders by the fact that only one IP address is visible on the network. Internal servers and stations are inaccessible, and thus secure from outsiders. Novell networking is based on directory services, whereas Microsoft Networking is based on domains. IntraNetWare combines Novell's NetWare 4 with networking architecture offering Web services to provide LAN solutions. Novell has also made the intraNetWare client more graphical and user-friendly by providing Java support with its own development platform. IntraNetWare also includes Netscape FastTrack Server for NetWare and Oracle8 database, and allows the configuration of a TCP/IP network. It enhances Novell's TCP/IP capabilities by adding Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and DNS services. Novell recently introduced Netware 5, which adds some useful new features. For example, zero-effort networking allows administrators to gain more control over the desktop and allows application distribution and management over a network. And the NetWare server can now be administered using a Java-based tool called ConsoleOne. Microsoft is also promising many new features with Windows NT 5.0, including a new management infrastructure. NT 5.0 is also coming out with a directory-based network called Active Directory. For NT, this will be a move away from the current domain architecture. I'll discuss Microsoft's NT 5.0 networking features and Novell's NetWare 5 in a future article. internetworld.com

To: Spartex who wrote (23950)	10/12/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Microsoft and Novell to hold hands at Professional Developers Conference By Bob Trott and Dana Gardner InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:53 AM PT, Oct 12, 1998 Novell will display its newly cozy relationship with Microsoft this week when it demonstrates Novell Directory Services (NDS) for Windows NT and other products at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Denver. Novell also will demonstrate enhancing domains with NDS for NT, managing Windows desktops with Novell Z.E.N.works, and integrating thin clients into networks using Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix, and NDS, Novell officials said. Microsoft's main thrust will be interoperability and the NT 5.0-COM+ marriage. The company also will release Microsoft Agent 2.0, which provides software services for developers to create interactive animated characters in applications or Web pages using any language. In addition, Microsoft will announce plans to license the FalconMQ Bridge from Level 8 Systems to spur integration between Microsoft Message Queue Server and IBM's MQSeries. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will include Level 8 FalconMQ Bridge Server with Windows NT Server. The middleware functionality of message queuing has soared in importance recently as vendors and developers use it to guarantee delivery of objects in asynchronous environments and between disparate systems and platforms. In addition, a number of third-party vendors will announce products this week. Sybase will unveil Adaptive Server Anywhere for Windows CE, Version 6.0, which will support both WinCE 2.0 and the recently released Version 2.11, formerly called Jupiter, said Brian Vink, director of marketing at Sybase's mobile and embedded computing division in Waterloo, Ontario. Due in November, Sybase will ship with the development version of SQL Anywhere Studio for a price of $399. Subsequent seats will cost $119. Rational Software will debut Rational DevelopmentDeskTop for giving Windows platform developers more automated test and change-request management, error-detection, performance profiling, and code-coverage analysis, officials from the company said. DevelopmentDeskTop, which will ship within 30 days at a price of $1,998, offers integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and support for Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Java. Simware will announce Salvo 4.0, a three-tier application development and deployment environment that exploits COM and Microsoft Transaction Server to bridge the enterprise with extranets. InstallShield will preview an installation toolkit for Windows CE developers. infoworld.com