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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1281)	10/19/1998 5:21:00 PM
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From Computer Reseller News "Over the last three or four years, no leading vendor of any kind has really stood up and made a strategic commitment to NDS." Why hasn't Nortel or Cisco committed to support NDS? Are they afraid of Microsoft? Lucent And Novell Team Up On NDS By Kimberly Caisse Boston 1:16 PM EDT Mon., Oct. 19, 1998 .............. Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novell Inc. have teamed up to provide support for Novell Directory Services (NDS) in Lucent's data networking products. Lucent is hoping it can leverage Novell's large installed base, more 50 million desktops worldwide, to gain a foothold in the data networking market, said Paul Parker-Johnson, product line manager for ATM, network management and policy networking products in Lucent's Data Networking Systems (DNS) division. "Our hope is that by leveraging this installed base . . . it will provide an incentive to customers to look positively at us as an emerging provider of enterprise data solutions," he said. In addition to simply enabling Lucent products to work with NDS servers, the two companies plan to work on developing and promoting directory-enabled networking (DEN) standards and policy-based networking. Initially, Lucent said it will bundle its Cajun 550 switch with NDS, a combination slated to be demonstrated at Networld Interop in Atlanta this week. By mid-1999, Lucent plans to ship a policy-management server that will enhance the functions of an NDS server, Parker-Johnson said. Through Lightweight Directory Access Protocol integration at the switch level, Lucent's switches exchange information with NDS servers, he said. A Simple Network Management Protocol gateway is scheduled to be included in Lucent's policy-based server so it can communicate with an NDS server. Novell, Provo, Utah, and Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent plan to be among the Desktop Management Task Force members that collaborate on the Common Information Model and DEN specifications to help promote interoperability between directory services, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Active Directory due out on the market when Windows NT 5.0 ships. "To us that's as important as being able to leverage [Novell's] existing installed base because we know that it's a diverse user population and there will be other directories in addition to this one," Parker-Johnson said. "The partnership issue is a very big one from Novell," said Jamie Lewis, industry analyst with The Burton Group, a market-research firm based in Salt Lake City. "Over the last three or four years, no leading vendor of any kind has really stood up and made a strategic commitment to NDS." Lee Copeland contributed to this story.