“Dan Kusnetzky, IDC’s director of operating environments, said
Novell has missed a big opportunity with NDS in enterprise
networks. ‘They’ve had a window of opportunity for four years,
during which Microsoft was talking about the wonders of Active
Directory,’ he said. ‘They could have capitalized on the directory
to increase their share.’ “
“But Novell already has shifted its attack. Instead of
looking at the enterprise OS market – where it has all but conceded
first place to Microsoft – Novell is trying to catapult its
directory technology onto the Internet with its NDS eDirectory
platform.”
“Novell’s competitive marketing strategy, then, is to pigeonhole
Windows 2000 as a technology locked into corporate networks – and,
even then, of networks running just the Microsoft operating system.
With Microsoft busy trying to extend that reach, Novell can tout
its own iChain and NDS eDirectory software as the best way to share
information among multiple business networks over the
Internet.”