“…20 percent increase in revenues… attributed to Novell
Directory Services (NDS), and other directory-related software and
services. They also include strong sales of Internet Protocol-based
NetWare 5. …Novell introduced its Single Sign-on product and to
market is the first of an important series of security management
products…”
“Novell… continues to profit from its dominant directory
technology, which is gradually locking Windows 2000 out of
the directory market. If the take-up of Windows 2000 is as
slow as we are expecting then NDS may beat off the threat… from
Microsoft. The sales of vanilla NetWare may have bottomed out,
but… the low-end server market is now threatened by the growth of
Linux.”