Chase Manhattan and many other large corporations have latched on to Novell's NDS to manage networks, and pulling out a proven system in favour of completely new software is hugely unattractive. At the low end, Linux has grown rapidly and for many...
The tool will assist companies clean up and consolidate their NT domains for the move to Windows 2000. BindView, a supplier of IT risk management solutions introduced two new management and migration tools for Windows 2000 and Active Directory.
Despite the name, it's an upgrade to Windows NT. Professional is the upgrade to NT Workstation, is designed for desktops and notebooks and will retail at £260*. It supports the Kerberos protocol that sends encrypted passwords over a network instead...
Windows 2000 is quite a bit more scalable than Windows NT was before," he said. With a note of warning, Amir Hudda, managing director of Entevo, thought the new programmes might pose some teething problems for new users, many of who may not have...
In its statement Microsoft said: "NDS for NT's architecture has significant deployment limitations and does not 'directory-enable' a Windows NT environment. Larry Gauthier, senior analyst at the Burton Group, claims the delay to NT 2000, which...
In theory, Microsoft was waiting in the wings with Active Directory - to be delivered with Windows 2000 - which would provide NDS with direct competition and possibly grind it into history. Novell is now releasing eDirectory, an extension of NDS...
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