“Novell Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt last week implored users at Comdex
to consider Novell Directory Services (NDS) as the basis for
managing relationships on the Web. Indeed, some users are
already beginning to think that way.”
“Cable News Network (CNN) is rolling out NDS 8 on NetWare to
deliver customized content and targeted advertising to millions of
Web users, said Monty Mullig, vice president of Internet
technology at the Atlanta-based broadcaster. … Mullig said NDS
will provide the high performance and scale CNN needs as it
continues to grow from a projected 3 million users early next year
to as many as 10 million by year’s end. In its role as a data
server, NDS’s performance is crucial because the personalized
content a user has requested must pop up about as quickly as
generic content would.”
“Schmidt also pledged to make NDS 8 available on Linux. Jamie
Lewis, an analyst at The Burton Group in Midvale, Utah, said Novell
is delivering on its claims that NDS is a platform-independent
tool. “That’s a big step for Novell,” he said.”