In most enterprises today Hein believes around 80 per cent of applications can have a single sign on. The joint efforts of Microsoft and Novell to provide NDS support for NT, Active directory and Windows 2000 will save money for businesses...
It also uses security tokens and can code binary tokens - X.509 certificates and Kerberos tickets, specifically. The federated model allows the data to reside with whoever is providing the web service but opens up new issues of interoperability.
The deal offers more evidence that AOL is beginning to push interoperability between its coveted IM network and other systems after years of resistance. AOL has also been testing interoperability between AIM and IBM's Lotus SameTime, currently the...
McNealy confirmed that the companies are focusing on linking their respective directory servers, Microsoft's Active Directory and Sun's Java Enterprise LDAP Directory, to provide single sign-on capabilities for companies using both servers.
Will the Lotus environment migrate to Linux? Will a Novell file and print server migrate to a Linux environment? This means they could migrate the services they run today on Netware seamlessly onto Linux.
Specifically, the companies expect their collaboration to achieve interoperability in several domains: Microsoft's Active Directory - so the companies' software has integrated sign-on and federated identity management mechanisms.