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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (11407)	10/19/1998 9:08:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

Fredrick, I thought I saw you just fly by in your white stallion! Good news about Lucent. This is what I have been preaching to many of my customers and peers - that Directory Services will be the next wave, the next IT buzzword, the next technology that will take IT shops to the next level of efficiency, capability, security, and manageability. Those that dont believe are those that have not yet seen what a true and pervasive DS can provide the IT shop and the end-user. Anyone using MSFT domains are completely in the dark, because many of them believe that when Active Directory comes out it will be on par to NDS and able to deliver all that NDS currently can deliver NOW. This cannot be further from the truth. When MSFT Active Directory is finally ever released it will be where Novell was with NNS (Novell Naming Services - a pre-NDS derivative which tried to make Bindery Services become a true directory - it failed). That was about 1992! That is how many years behind MSFT Active Directory will be to NDS - and its architecture will ultimately fail in real-life deployments as well. You would think that MSFT developers would have been smart enough to learn from Novell's mistakes and avoid the cheap-and-dirty "lets just fix up Domains" concept. The good thing for Novell is that MSFT isn't that smart on technology and it only puts NDS technology that many more years ahead of Active Directory. The MSFT customer will quickly come to realize the MSFT Active Directory failures and most will not wait for any more MSFT promises. The industry vendors have started to get the message that NDS is the only Directory Service that is full service and pervasive while being as open as is possible in our industry (full commitments and current deliverables to LDAP and pure Java). NDS has more and more major vendors under their belt (IBM, Lucent, HP, Oracle, Sun, Peoplesoft, etc.). Also, because of open industry standards, other vendors dont even know they are tied into the NDS structure (i.e. Cisco, 3Com, MSFT, etc.). Frederick, the tide is changing and while MSFT goes through some real rough times over the next year (i.e. the DOJ case, the Sun lawsuit, the much delayed NT5 release, Y2K, etc.) companies like Novell will be grabbing back what was theirs and then some completely new internet related customers. Ride em' Frederick! Toy