Novell, Netscape and Microsoft are expected next month to announce plans to link their directory products with enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. For example, linking Novell Directory Services with PeopleSoft's Human Resources (HR...
Microsoft officials said the company will integrate Zoomit's metadirectory technology into Windows 2000 and Active Directory sometime next year. A collection of software vendors lead by IBM and Novell have announced an initiative designed to...
The reporting features for Active Directory will allow administrators to measure compliance to their security policies and find security inconsistencies. The tools additionally provide checks for execution to security configuration policies once...
STS will offer extended federation and privacy support, and integrated resource discovery and management, among other features, Microsoft said. At an unspecified time after it releases Longhorn Server, Microsoft plans to add a Security Token...
But the companies will work to better integrate directory services, database software and systems management tools. However, unlike the GPL, the LGPL makes it possible to tightly integrate LGPL code with software that uses proprietary code.
For this to occur within employers' and regulators' guidelines requires policies to be in place and implemented. Any content-filtering products need to integrate with this and build on it, and not require redefinition.