By the end of calendar year 1999, Novell Inc’s Novell Directory Services (NDS) will run natively on Linux. The directory technology should make it easier to integrate Linux resources with those residing on NetWare, NT and Solaris systems. Customers will get a single infrastructure for managing and securing their platforms and applications. NDS supports single sign-on and single point of administration, which helps reduce network maintenance costs. Novell’s announcement adds fresh credibility to Linux as an enterprise platform, as does a report in Infoworld that BEA Systems Inc is poised to announce versions of its Tuxedo distributed transaction processing software and WebLogic application server for Red Hat Linux 5.2.
