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To: Peppe who wrote (19229)	11/11/1998 12:11:00 PM
From: LLCoolG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Peppe, I have been holding since 1993. I know the bandwagon well. Regards, G

To: Peppe who wrote (19229)	11/11/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Wow - big surprise yet another Cisco competitor will be making a commitment to Novell's NDS! Say goodbye AD... Novell nabs Nortel for NDS By Scott Berinato, PC Week Online November 11, 1998 10:31 AM ET Chalk up another win for NDS. Novell Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Northern Telecom Ltd. will license its Novell Directory Services. According to sources close to the announcement, Nortel will use NDS to enable directory-based management of its data networking equipment, acquired along with Bay Networks Inc. earlier this year. Moreover, by integrating NDS with Bay's Optivity network management software, users will be able to tap the directory to manage, at some level, many vendors' networking hardware. Novell and Nortel may demonstrate Optivity-NDS integration at next week's Comdex in Las Vegas, according to the sources. For Novell, it's another partnership win in a very public fight to get Cisco Systems Inc. to license NDS. Such a partnership would result in directory-based management and policy networking with Cisco hardware in NetWare environments. Without the partnership, managing Cisco hardware via the directory will be difficult at best, users have said. Two weeks ago, it was Lucent Technologies Inc. that signed on to integrate NDS with its routing switches in the first half of 1999 and, eventually, across its entire networking product line. Lucent's goal is similar in that it wants to extend its networking management across multiple vendors' hardware via the directory. As for Cisco, it is developing Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory, based on Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming directory product. While sources said Cisco and Novell are trying to hash out a similar deal for NDS, so far the sides have committed only to base interoperability through standards such as DEN (Directory Enabled Networking) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) 3. Release dates for products resulting from the Novell-Nortel relationship have not been specified, but sources said they expect the timeline to run similar to Lucent's, with the first products released in the first half of 1999. Novell will continue to court networking vendors -- and Cisco competitors -- for NDS integration, sources said. One prime target is Cabletron Systems Inc. with its Spectrum management platform, they said. Novell, of Provo, Utah, is at www.novell.com. Nortel, of Brompton, Ontario, is at www.nortel.com. Toy