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To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (17638)	3/11/1999 9:28:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

OK Jorden, First point which came right out of Schmidt's mouth is that NDSv8 will be available as early as summer. The product people said that NDSv8 will be out for NetWare, NT, and Solaris by end-of-year. So my facts are straight. If you want articles that back my statements up I can provide it. NDSv8 will be out mid this year. As for replication... wrong issue to bring up when your talking NDS. NDS is the only DS that has the ability to efficiently replicate data. The demonstration I saw live in January showed 10 servers replicating 150 objects. Each server had 15 million objects. A billion objects will be a challenge BUT that is the beauty of NDS's tree partitioning capabilities! At Brainshare, NOVL will be demonstrating a tree with 500 million objects on NDSv8. This will very likely be over several servers (10-15) so replication will be a must. I would guess you have never worked with NDS Jordan. Replication is one of NDS's biggest strengths. In fact, NOVL is predicting that that will be MSFT AD's largest problem and why AD will not be a contender in the large scale DS solutions like ISP/telco class DSes. Even on a small number of onjects, MSFT's AD will consume more than ten times the bandwidth of NDS to replicate its directory data. I would guess that this is one reason MSFT is having such big problems with AD. NOVL Engineers are by far the leaders of DS replication. So much so that they are heading up the LDUP standards committee. LDUP is the part of LDAP that will allow Directories to replicate between each other. Currently that is a major missing piece for and DS that relies upon LDAP to run its internal DS services. LDUP will resolve this a part of the LDAP protocol. So, trying to use replication as a weakness for NDS is not the right way to knock NDS. That is one of its most powerful strengths! Toy