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To: keithsha who wrote (24197)	11/3/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Peter Connolly	Respond to of 42771

Hi Keith Strange you should show up on this thread at the same time that MSFT are targeting NOVL resellers and customers in their 'NetWare crusade'. What rate do you get for this overtime, or are you allowed heckle in company time? If so, is this part of your job and lastly why the hell aren't you doing your real work? - if you know so much about directories maybe you can give your developers some pointers - I should think it's all hands to the pump to get MAD out the door, whatever state it's in. The point about NDS is that you don't need multiple trees. The idea is to have a single directory, something you obviously miss the point of. I know MAD is hamstrung by your domain backwards compatibility mode to fit in with your current (legacy) structure, but NOVL made a clean, if painful, break with the models MSFT have chosen for their current and future models back when NW4 and NDS shipped. A single NDS tree of 2 million objects has already been built as a proof of concept. You can read about it on the Novell home page. While you're there, appreciate how fast the page downloads - that's BorderManager speed in action. Active directory will be brain dead at release. MSFT are already pulling features like prune and graft as they realise how impossible their task is. Maybe version 3 will fix it, as is usual with MSFT products, but by that stage you'll be pulling the remnants of your credibility around you as you're shown the boardroom door. Too little, too late, my friend. Peter