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Novell CEO Eric Schmidt this week will attempt to take the
network software industry's center stage - with a large product splash of his own a week before Microsoft officials do the same with the launch of Windows 2000. Schmidt, who is expected to outline a series of new technologies involving everything from directories to net management to e-commerce, spoke by phone last week with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor.
How is Novell exploiting the fact that Novell Directory Services (NDS) is a more mature product than Microsofts Active Directory?
You are assuming that Active Directory is a real product. It hasn't shipped yet, but we're told it will ship soon. Once it ships, we have committed to fully interoperate with it. We have a technology that allows you to mix and match [servers and workstations] as needed. Most people will use NDS for corporate and backbone directories because it runs on more than just Windows 2000.
What is that...