That's great. Now, let me see how many of my apps can take advantage of that.
Ok, none of them. Not to bash Novell, but there are a lot of reasons that they lost (and continue to lose) the NOS/Unified Directory battle. The largest being applications support. There are, and have been for the last 5-8 years, a ratio of about 100-to-1 server applications available for the Windows server platform over Novell. File and Print services hasn't been a good determinant of NOS quality since the mid 1990's. You ever wonder why Sun doesn't push F&P services? The other side of this is that Novell is giving away nothing but profit. These licenses don't account for any intellectual property - just a piece of paper saying you have the right to access the service. You still need to buy the service, and the necessry training, to make use of it. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:27 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Free eDirectory licenses? > > > Interesting if true ... has anyone here taken them up on this? > eDir (NDS) is a mature platform ... > > --------- Included Stuff Follows ---------------- > Novell is also offering eDirectory free to users of the Sun > ONE Directory Server and says it will also extend the offer to > users of Microsoft's Active Directory. With the offer, IT > managers will receive 250,000 licenses to eDirectory and > 25,000 user license for Novell's DirXML Lightweight Directory > Access Protocol (LDAP) driver at no charge. The DirXML LDAP > driver lets IT managers connect to any application that makes > use of LDAP. DirXML is Novell's metadirectory, which is based > on XML and allows for connections to be made between > applications. > --------- Included Stuff Ends ---------------- > http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1105edirectory.html?net -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124 http://www.geoapps.com/ AIM: AngusWSF ICQ: 165646506 --------------------------------------------------------- -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124 http://www.geoapps.com/ AIM: AngusWSF ICQ: 165646506 --------------------------------------------------------- ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
