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Why Novell?
August 21, 2000 |
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Why are we investigating Novell exclusively for a solution to cross-platform authentication? Quite simply, we see Novell as one of the few players that can pull off this feat in the enterprise. By taking an industry-proven directory service and opening it up to as many platforms as possible, Novell is closer to providing a solution than any other company we've seen. Ask the software company behind the other big directory service (hint: the service's initials begin with an "A" and ends with a "D") how its directory is going to integrate with other platforms, and the company will give you the "L" word: LDAP. This sounds fine until you try to move your enterprise to LDAP-based authentication. You wind up with a bunch of homegrown solutions that work on a scattered assortment of platforms, require some major expertise to maintain and have only a handful of people available to support or develop them. Microsoft also used to talk about Windows 2000 being Kerberos V-compliant and seamlessly interoperating with other Kerberos deployments--but that also never really got off the ground. Until Microsoft realizes that LDAP is not a ubiquitous solution, that people are not going to continue to tolerate standards-tweaking and that no one with a clue is going to run a 100 percent Microsoft environment, Novell and other vendors will have an advantage. We'll see if Novell can pull it off, but from our view, this is one of the few areas where the company is still leading the pack.
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