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To: Spartex who wrote (24164)	11/2/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Quad, Let me save you a ton of time and effort. Dont waste much time against Keithsha. He is a MSFT employee who pretends to know what he is talking about regarding NOVL technology. This is the same person who had the nerve to actually compare the technology and maturity of NDS to Domains! LOL!! He thinks wathdog packets have something to do with NDS. He thinks Domains (and active directory for that matter) are scalable solutions for enterprise serious IT shops. He throws stones about an early bug in NDS and NW5 without putting much brainpower regarding the countless bugs and sytem crashes and domain to active directory migration nightmares that MSFT customers are inevitably going to encounter if and when MSFT ever can get the product out to the public. So dont waste your fingers on responding to Keithsha. He is a joke which Mr. Gates allows to make a fool out of MSFT just by his totally insane comments. But it does make for entertaining reading. LOL Cheers Quad! Toy

To: Spartex who wrote (24164)	11/2/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: keithsha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Directory services of all kinds, are essentially distributed databases subject to the rules of consistency, integrity, latency, etc. that we have learned over the last 20 years. Or in Novell's case have not learned. NDS is unfortunately compromised by it's Netware heritage: NLM based, hierarchical view of a flat file, poor data type support, loose consistency model, etc. Server up files or print queues is one thing, running a business on a weak architecture is quite another. Keithsha