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To: jim shiau who wrote (22528)	5/11/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: Indra H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT to buy webmd.com? can anyone confirm that david faber from cnbc mention that msft is looking to partner up or buy webmd.com? thanks in advance Ih

To: jim shiau who wrote (22528)	5/11/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Yes I read the article Jim. Exactly what does that prove regarding the fact the NDS is already turning the third corner of the Directory Services race as Inactive Directory is still stumbling to get out of the gate? The article was pretty well written (even for PC-Week's standards that are usually high on the MSFT biased side and poorly researched) but one clear mistake in the article relating to NetWare was that the article stated NOVL makes claims that NetWare has an SMP kernel. In fact until a few months from now, NetWare is SMP capable IF the applications are written to take advantage of SMP. The soon-to-be-released NetWare 5 "Six-Pack" will allow all its system services (NLMs) to be fully SMP-aware. With this version all the processors in the system will load-balance the demands from the NOS. But the article is correct in that there are very few corporate demands that can put enough load on a single NetWare server with a large processor and RAM. Unlike NT that usually needs SMP just to get adequate performance for even light corporate loads. Industry studies have estimated a 5:1 ratio on NT to NetWare servers in performance. But regardless, this whole article had absolutely nothing to do with Directory Services. Jim, you are like so many that get a NOS and a Directory Service completely mixed up. A DS should be not be NOS specific and reliant. NOVL's NDS is only a few short months away from completely achieving this goal. In fact, NDS is even now found on Intel OSes (NT, UnixWare, shortly Linux), non-Intel platforms (Solaris, AIX, OS/390, etc.) and even non-server platforms like routers, firewalls, switches, gateways, etc. MSFT will likley NEVER see Inactive Directory perform on any other platform NOS other than NT for the forseeable. This will prove to be a huge failing point for MSFT and its customers. NDSv8, is a MAJOR milestone revolution beyond the current NDS in that it has separated the NDS functions/protocols from the datastore. This allows it to use different databases and scale to the already proven 1 billion object level (and the scale has still not been reached). Inactive Directory - when it ever shows its lowly v1.0 head - will have a theoretical max of 10 million objects (and most technical analysts know how effective a 10 million object Inactive Directory will function like with its fundamental design still based on DOMAINS). NDSv8 also has a native implementation of LDAPv3. So I will repeat myself.... Active Directory officially falls further behind in the Directory Services front... Toy

To: jim shiau who wrote (22528)	5/12/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

In an earlier post I was talking about the next paradigm that will relegate the Server OSes to a commodity role because of the open standards that are negating the "Proprietary Solutions" like MSFT's. Following are parts of an Aberdeen doc. I found on another board that talks about this issue and how IBM and Novell are leveraging each other's strengths to take advantage of this new paradigm. The entire document is even more interesting to read... software.ibm.com IBM/Novell Relationship Indicates New Market Dynamics IBM and Novell have announced that IBM's WebSphere Application Server will ship with Novell NetWare 5. With WebSphere, NetWare gains a powerful, open, scaleable Enterprise Java application runtime environment, and IBM shows that it is deadly serious about expanding its software marketshare. This relationship is likely to have a profound impact on the industry, as these two giants learn how to work more closely together and leverage each others strengths. ..... EJB - A Shark in the Proprietary Pool Aberdeen Group is preparing to publish EJB - a Shark in the Proprietary Pool, an Executive White Paper that argues that proprietary development and runtime platforms - including those from NetDynamics and AOL/Netscape - may be at a serious competitive disadvantage. Now, Novell embraces the very platform that challenges those proprietary environments - WebSphere. Through WebSphere, and IBM's huge software branding effort, Novell's NetWare will become an Open Application Server to be reckoned with. ... - Tim Sloane AberdeenGroup, Inc. Toy