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RSS directory serverNovell sees its Destiny
News Code-named Destiny, the strategy includes the release of a UDDI server built on Novell e-directory, the next version of e-directory, v8.7, and add-ons for its current web services products. Just months after announcing the launch of its One Net... [16 Jul 2002]
IBM seals Metamerge deal
News The company has already been heavily using Metamerge products in its directory server technology to make directory content available through a single interface. IBM has bought Norwegian software company Metamerge to beef up the directory... [26 Jun 2002]
Novell failing to fight off Microsoft
News The noose that Microsoft has put around businesses is that their latest version of SQL and Exchange 2000 demands Windows 2000 server and Active Directory. Novell is facing a mass exodus of customers away from its products as 81 per cent say they... [17 Jun 2002]
App servers - what you should know, what you should do
Comment This additional functionality can include integration adaptors, directory servers, portals, business intelligence applications and business process management as well as caching, personalisation and development tools. [31 May 2002]
Solaris 9 to make Sun more competitive
News Solaris 9 integrates Sun's application server, resource manager and directory server as well as new capabilities such as firewall, volume manager and patch manager. Sun will likely argue that major returns on investment will accrue from the... [30 May 2002]
Sun's Solaris moves to Linux
News For the first time, Sun has bundled its iPlanet application server and iPlanet directory server into the Unix-based operating system. However, the application server component can be easily switched off and substituted by a different app server... [22 May 2002]
Novell outlines the lie of the land
News Netware 6 will form the base upon which web services will be developed, elevating it from a directory services component to a web services must-have. Uinta will also address load changes on the server and offer infinite capacity, headded. [13 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM Global Services - the reckoning, Sun re-branding and Unix wars
Comment This applies to the web server, portal server, application server, directory server, identity server, messaging server, calendar server and integration server. Soft to create a single web services infrastructure covering everything from component... [22 Apr 2002]
Sun's Passport-buster is nothing but 'Solaris dressed up'
News Sun's offering is made up of its iPlanet Directory Server Software, Sun Fire UltraSPARC III servers, StorEdge D2 storage array and the Solaris 8 operating system. The products which comprise Sun's bid to challenge Microsoft's Passport offering are... [12 Mar 2002]
Inside Novell: a vendor dossier
Comment Microsoft, it goes without saying, has a competing product but, typically, Active Directory assumes the world is Microsoft-only. NetWare Directory Services (NDS) saw the light of day with the introduction of NetWare 4.0 in 1994. [06 Feb 2002]
The Ovum View: Speech - IT meets telephony?
Comment A European telco said that it saves $1m per year by cutting just one second off all of its directory assistance calls. The fundamental levels of speech recognition can be performed on a server or embedded in a user device, such as a PDA. [07 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Cookies
Cheat Sheet Internet Explorer stores each cookie as a separate file under a Windows directory, Netscape stores all cookies in a single cookies.txt file and Opera stores them in a single cookies.dat file. OK, the server stores relevant information on the client... [29 Nov 2001]
Sun goes head-to-head with Microsoft in web services contest
News The starter kit will be free to developers for a year and will include directory server software, J2EE, Forte development tools and portal, web and messaging server software. Sun also unveiled software designed to enable secure instant messaging... [24 Oct 2001]
Why Novell lost its mojo
Comment Remember Novell - the Utah-based vendor known for classics such as NetWare, Novell Directory Services and even tech executive par excellence Eric Schmidt? Anil Gadre, general manager of Sun Microsystems' Solaris division - the same Sun the... [19 Sep 2001]
LDAP blues: Server weakness throws up security fears
News Users running versions of IBM SecureWay, iPlanet Directory Server, Lotus Domino R5 Server, Network Associates' PGP Keyserver, Microsoft Exchange 5.5 LDAP Service, OpenLDAP, Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition, Qualcomm Eudora mail program and Teamware... [17 Jul 2001]
