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To: Spartex who wrote (25828)	3/6/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

It is a bit confusing, but I have seen the Novell demo of SCADS with 150 million objects while at the Global Partners Summit. So 50 million objects is a wild understatement of its capabilities. In fact, I heard from Novell Engineers that they want to demonstrate a 1 billion object tree by the end of summer!! 1 BILLION OBJECTS! That makes MSFT Active Directory nothing but childs play only to be used by small mom&pop outfits. I also understand that SCADS (NDSv8) will be released as a demo to the world this month (specially at Brainshare). Based on that - I would guess that NDSv8 would very likely be released late this year. Beta will be out very soon. As for the comment on an earlier post that the article was stretching the concept that NOVL is an Internet stock - they dont understand that the next evolution of Internet needs a mature Directory Service to make the possibility of next-generation E-commerce a feasible reality. If fact, I would call NOVL's products much more Internet capable that MSFT's. NOVL is therefore much more of an Internet company than MSFT. MSFT products are still much too proprietary to mesh with many of the open standards that the Internet demands. NT is still based on many non-internet communications protocols - unlike NetWare5. NDS much more Internet-ready and scaleable than MSFT domains. We cant talk about Active Directory until it shows up next year and even then its will be in its Version 1 infancy. MSFT has IIS, but Novell has licensed Netscape's Suitespot. Novell has a fully featured firewall/caching service (that is DS enabled) of which MSFT has no competing option. Novell is fully commited to JAVA, CORBA, and is not only LDAP compliant now, but even heads up the lates LDAP committees (LDUP). I can go on and on why the logic that NOVL is not an Internet company is wrong - but I will stop here. So anyone who thinks NOVL is not an Internet stock does not know NOVL! Toy

To: Spartex who wrote (25828)	3/6/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello! From what I've heard about NDSv8 is that it can contain 100,000 objects per partition and 150 million objects per tree. That's right now today! The 500 million object plateau might be something of a target for them as they further develop NDS. Also, I believe that NDSv8 can be had...I'll search around and let you know but I heard it was available through Novell's DeveloperNet (perhaps only to subscribers though to develop their products for the new version of NDS)- or at least the whitepaper on it. I do know that Novell has a working example of NDSv8 up and running internally. Toy?? Anything you've heard? By the way, someone has verified Toy's SKADS moniker for me too. Why did they have to change that :) Also you can setup NDS queries through LDAP right now that can be done in less than 10 seconds. You have to setup the "catalog" via the Dredger.nlm and then run your queries. Also Novell has an ODBC (JDBC) driver that allows you to query the NDS datastore with any reporting tool (such as Crystal Reports). Peter

To: Spartex who wrote (25828)	3/6/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

NDS 8.0 Scales To New Heights Novell this week will introduce the next major version of its enterprise directory service. Positioned as both an enterprise and Internet directory, Novell Directory Services version 8 will be more scalable than previous versions, Novell officials said. Version 8 will support native LDAP rather than using a gateway. In addition to its core enterprise features, the directory will be equipped to support e-commerce and extranets, and will scale to support an infinite number of objects, Novell said. An open beta will be released today, with a commercial version arriving in the next few months. Initially available only on NetWare 5, Novell plans to unify the code base for NDS on Windows NT and Solaris. (See www.internetwk.com/nds.htm for the full story.) Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc. techweb.com