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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (17605)	3/10/1999 6:55:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"NDS is going to be the product of choice...until MSFT can revise AD to be a serious directory service, capable of handling LARGE amounts of data effectively." does microsoft have anything in the pipeline which will fix the problems you have cited? regards

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (17605)	3/10/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Cheryl, See, once you read the details on the real differences between the two products, you get a real sense on why Active Directory will instantly be born with a handicap - a foundation still based on the Domain Architecture. Until MSFT has the time and guts to break away from the Domains as a foundation, NDS has nothing to fear about Active Directory. As far as MDS goes, "you aint seen nothing yet!" NDS v8 was officially announced this week and is expected to be release in Q2 or Q3 '99 at the latest (the Solaris and NT versions of NDS v8 will be ready by year-end '99). This is an incredible next version of NDS that will leave even the current version of NDS in the dust, much less the first version of Active Directory. At Brainshare in Utah in 2 weeks Novell will be demonstrating NDSv8 with as many as 500 million objects and processing 300 queries a second. By Summer, Novell hopes to demonstrate to the industry a 1 BILLION object tree!! This is the Directory Service that the ISPs and telcos are looking for. (MSFT itself admits to only being able to handle 10 million object - and we all know what that really means - about 1-2 million feasibly) NDS v8 will also be supporting a seperated datastore meaning that it will be able to use Oracle's 8i DBMS. I heard that future plans will be to even allow MSFT SQL Server to be used as a datastore. As you can see, NOVL is being a virus that feeds on MSFT and its product weaknesses. In this way, you cant shake NOVL as an alternative based on not working with MSFT products, since they all do and do it better than MSFT products can themselves. GREAT STRETEGY ehh? By the time Active Directory finally shows up as released code, NDS will be so far advanced and scaleable and the industry defacto that no one will seriously consider it other than to run a small department of office environment. The Directory Services Era has arrived and the industry is going to hear a ton about it over the next few years. (similar to the Client/Server era of the late 80's). NOVL has this technology wrapped up already and has no plans on resting on its laurels like it did with NetWare. They learned from their mistake. Toy