“Novell chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt unveiled new products
aimed at taming the dispersed and disparate nature of the Internet
during his keynote address at Comdex… Novell Directory Services
eDirectory and NDS Corporate Edition offers a cross-platform LDAP
implementation with a unified administrative interface.”
“NDS eDirectory offers the ability to drill down and share
an NDS directory over LDAP with other organizations. Novell
technicians demonstrated edge-to-edge connectivity between two
fictitious e-businesses wishing to share user identities between
their sites. They were able to authenticate users, granting single
log-on for local and remote access, using NDS eDirectory services.
The demo took place on NetWare and Linux boxes. Schmidt
also announced availability for Solaris and Windows NT
platforms, and when Windows 2000 ships, Active Directory will also
be supported.”
“During a press conference immediately following his
presentation, Schmidt and executives from Sun Microsystems,
BroadVision, Lucent, Xircom, Oblix, Alta Vista and integrator
Whittman-Hart were on-hand to discuss the way that they are
implementing eDirectory and their partnerships with Novell.”