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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (26073)	3/17/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Best New Products Honored At FOSE 03/17/99 Newsbytes, Wednesday, March 17, 1999 at 12:18 WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1999 MAR 17 (NB) -- By Staff, Govt Computer News. Two products tied for Best of Show honors last night when Government Computer News editorial director, Thomas R. Temin, announced the winners of the Best New Product Awards at FOSE. The lightweight Latitude LT M266ST notebook from Dell Computer Corp. [NASDAQ:DELL] and the NetWare 5 network operating system from Novell Inc. [NASDAQ:NOVL] both received Best of Show honors. "We felt we had to make both a hardware and software award this year," said Temin, one of the 14 members of the product judging panel. "Judges loved the Latitude LT for its extraordinary function in a mere three-pound portable. And we honored NetWare 5 for its remarkable leap forward over previous versions of the NOS (network operating system). After some debate, we decided to give awards to both products." Last night's award was Novell Inc.'s first in the four years since GCN started honoring best new products at FOSE. Dell is a repeat winner, although it never won in the portable category. "The outstanding quality of contest entries this year made the job of deciding the winners quite challenging," Temin said. "In several categories, the scores were very tight." NetWare 5 was the winner in the enterprise software category. The Latitude LT took the top honors among eight finalists in the portable computer category. Eleven other products won Best New Product Awards at FOSE '99.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (26073)	3/17/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

Hello Paul! <<I see these comments as a dialogue beginning between Novell and all of the industry leaders. IT's sort of like another star player joins the internet team and you have to make room on the bench >> I'm often left wondering the same thing, as NDS becomes more and more publicized, we'll see everyone make their comments on why they like it or not. Novell will listen and make the adjustments as you say long before MSFT can get the training wheels off their product. There was a great article in Network World by Dave Kearns titled, "When Noise means nothing". He goes on to explain recent announcements by companies such as Oracle, IBM and Entevo about their directory products. The tone of the piece is "ho-hum" regarding the announcements. He concludes: "...Maybe all the noise does signify something after all -- Novell's complete domination of directory services." Peter Strifas ps- take a walk over to nwfusion.com and take the NDS for NT for FREE survey :) Here's the article (it's behind a password at the site) When noise means nothing Network World, 03/15/99 There's been a lot of noise on the directory services front over the past few weeks, but Macbeth's words probably best sum up the recent news: "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Oracle finally got around to recognizing the importance of directories with its announcement of Oracle Internet Directory. Why "Internet"? Because it's a buzz word, or at least Larry Ellison thinks so. But Larry's never been known to be on culture's cutting edge. (Even his lifestyle is stuck in the '60s - read Mike Wilson's book, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.) The product should have been released years ago to leverage Oracle's database supremacy. After all, what is a directory except a special form of database? Earlier this month, Entevo released Version 2.0 of its DirectManage product for NT networks - an outstanding product bringing a semblance of directory services to Microsoft's inane domain structure. (See this week's Focus on Windows NT newsletter at www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/ for more about Version 2.0). That should have been enough, but unfortunately Entevo also announced the DirectAdmin NDS Plus Pack - a virtual directory for your mixed NT and NetWare network administered from NT utilities. Hello? If you're already using NT to administer your network, what's the point of having a NetWare server? And if you have a NetWare server, you should be running NDS for NT, a far superior product. Finally, Sun, Lucent, CheckPoint Software, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Nortel Networks, among others, joined together under the leadership of Process Software to "continue efforts in developing an industry-standard schema within the Internet Engineering Task Force for directory-enabling the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)," a recent Process press release stated. The IETF's DHCP Working Group hopes to tie into the Common Information Model (CIM) being developed by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF), which is currently trying to incorporate the Directory Enabled Network (DEN) initiative. Can anything good come from so many acronyms? In case you've been asleep, by the way, Novell Directory Services already manages DHCP quite well. Maybe all the noise does signify something after all - Novell's complete domination of directory services. All contents of Network World Fusion are copyright 1995-1999 by Network World, Inc., Framingham, MA 01701.