“Novell Inc.’s DigitalMe initiative announced yesterday in New
York…has a solid technical foundation in Novell Directory
Services (NDS) and expansive potential, analysts said, but
widespread adoption by consumers and e-commerce sites is far from a
sure thing…”
“While Novell’s stated hope is to sell NDS and the DigitalMe
development tool kit to e-commerce sites and Internet service
providers, it will release the source code of the system’s
interfaces so that DigitalMe can be viewed as an open
standard. Although opening up source code will enable other
directory providers eventually to offer similar services and cut
into NDS’s sales, Novell is more likely to sell DigitalMe as a
concept if it’s open, Fenik said…”