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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EPS who wrote (27120)	6/4/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

<<This is just speculation, but can you see a loop here? IDX/Siemens to Novell/BT. I am getting way over my head on the technical details, but perhaps a biometrically-enabled IDT phone can authenticate via a Novell platformed telecom>> Novell made a very important point to showcase several new authentication schemes including biometrics. They demonstrated authentication via fingerprint, facial features and voice. Remember, all it takes is someone or company to tie in their product (fingerprint analyzer, voice print matcher) to NDS for authentication purposes. NDS can store a file (voice or image) associated with the user for use in authenticating the user when they log on. NDS already has intruder detection limits you can set for user logons as well as restrictions via time of day, location and periods of time (ie, locked out user accounts during vacations). These built-in features would form the basis for these added logon features as well as allowing new or enhanced features to be developed. That way any company can develop their own software to bundle with their product that would "snap-in" to Novell's administration tool (NWADMIN or ConsoleOne) allowing more detailed management over the authentication process of their product. We all sit around and talk about NDS this and NDS that....the above example shows some of the power of a real directory. Companies don't have to worry about building their product and then developing software for several platforms or just one platform. They merely develop to the directory...if they extend NDS via XML and use JAVA to code their software, it's even more powerful because they are working in a standards realm. Along with that, niche markets will develop in extending the directory to add more functionality/versitality than originally envisioned. The best thing about that is it doesn't take a recreation of the OS to accomplish. Less R&D, faster product cycles....not bad huh? Peter J Strifas