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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (11384)	10/18/1998 2:58:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Eric, Initially NDS will be providing a single point of administration for Unix user security systems. Also, with the NDS code and API on the various Unix systems, developers on these systems can extend user security and administration into their applications. This is already taking place by some leading edge NDS/Unix customers. This can even be further extended since Oracle database tables can take user authentication from NDS as well. Longer term objectives would be to head toward a single login. This is not as easy a task since many legacy applications need to be upgraded in order to allow a single login and authentication from a Directory Service like NDS (i.e. Telnet, 3270, etc.). NDS is already available on HP-UX, AIX, SCO, and UnixWare. It will be available on MVS by end of 1998. There are initial plans between IBM and Novell to have NDS on OS/400 sometime next year. I also believe it is either in development for Solaris or already on that platform. Novell has stated that 90% of the Unix vendors have commited to placing NDS on their platform. There are a few other NDS ports to other smaller marketshare platforms like Hitashi. And most important for this board - NDS is already on NT since January of this year. In a few short weeks, NDS will allow NT servers to replicate. This means that NDS datastores will actually be possible on NT servers. NDS for NT allows an IT shop to remove the serious restrictions of NT Domains since users get their authentication from NDS (without even knowing that NDS provided the authentication). The NT domains simply become containers and objects in the NDS tree. And the tree naturally replicates throughout the entire organization. No matter how large the organization is - it still only has to deal with ONE TREE. And NDS is far superior to Domains in the process of administration, replication, and fault tolerance. And NDS penetration into the OS platforms is only the tip of the iceberg. I have not even mentioned NDS extention into areas like SNA gateways, Radius Services, DHCP/DNS, messaging, Internet firewalls, web services, desktop management, etc. etc. When you truely follow an NDS integration into a customer environment, the TCO reductions that are being realized are incredible. One single point of adminstration in all these areas throughout the entire enterprise! We have a couple customers that have place "NDS capable" as a criteria in any new system or IT service that they introduce into their IT environment. These customers are realizing the TCO savings. Toy