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DATELLNTE - the Future, year 2002. After a long year of work you are finally on vacation. After the typical frantic rush to pack and get to the airport, you […]

Until the early 1980s most users interacted With their computers via character-mode interfaces - they typed in commands. What happened to change all this was the arrival of proprietary window […]

At NATA's Unicom show in Washington, D.C., (November 24, 1994) three different switches were connected, via Novell networks and Novell's/AT&T's Telephony Services Application Programming Interface (TSAPI) to PCs. Shrink-wrapped apps, […]

DASH ANNOUNCES TAPI SUPPORT; MCK'S TELEBRIDGE; COMDIAL AND VTG TEAM UP One month after Computer Telephony Expo, the major events become clear: 1. Novell now has (or shortly will have) […]

Three years ago you bought a LAN and now you want to expand it. You want in-house support because you know that the need for qualified people does not end […]

Though the personal computing and communications worlds have been converging for some time, most organizations relegate communications functions to a proprietary PBX system that's unable to communicate with the corporate […]

The telephone and personal computer are communication tools that have coexisted independently on peoples' desk for many years. As a foundation for integrating these two desktop "workstations," Novell and AT&T […]

In the early days of computer telephony (or CTI as it was then called), the battlefield was littered with would-be conquerors, who found life difficult in the balkanized world that […]

Now that Linux and a variety of open-source applications have reached a high level of credibility among some business-technology managers for use in data-center environments, vendors of open-source products are […]

Without ceremony, fanfare or even an announcement, UnitedLinux, an industry consortium of The SCO Group Inc. (formerly Caldera International Inc.); Conectiva S.A; SuSE Linux (now a division of Novell Inc.); […]

WITH the release of Windows 2000 just a couple of weeks away, there is still no thaw in the relationship between Microsoft and Novell over compatibility between their directory services […]

DIRECTORY VENDORS, including Novell and Bowstreet, last week formally proposed an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based directory-services language that would provide enterprises with a standard set of programming commands to link […]

Companies may have to spend money they consider a waste and suffer lost worker time to recertify their network staffs as a result of changes Novell and Microsoft have recently […]

LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. - The search for directory interoperability gained momentum last week as five powerhouse organizations joined forces to promote a standard way for directories to exchange data. IBM, […]

Pointers: www.dsml.org url for novell story that ran Monday. LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. - Five major vendors Monday joined forces to promote a standard way for their products to talk to […]

Cupertino, Calif. - An effort launched by major vendors last week to create Java certification standards troubles some developers and analysts. Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Novell Inc., Oracle Corp. […]

Exam preparation tools can help potential CNEs make the grade There's no question that network engineering is the wave of the future in terms of technology and job opportunities. Careers […]

TAPI and TSAPI have made CTI easier to deploy, but they take different approaches. Network managers need to consider carefully what they want to achieve before setting on one or […]

While Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are dueling over which company will be the first to receive a full C2 security rating for its server operating system, IS managers say […]

Interested in a piece of the computer telephone integration pie? Who wouldn't be-especially when that pie is expected to grow to more than $9 billion by 1999, according to research […]

NetWare to gain printer management NetWare Distributed Print Services (NDPS) * Uses existing NetWare Embedded Systems Technology and NetWare Directory Services to coordinate print requests * NDPS Server automatically installs […]

Yes, NetWare tested and approved.' To many, this logo denotes an unequaled level of quality assurance. Many vendors won't market their products without it; many buyers won't consider a purchase […]

Users this week can start kicking the tires on technology that will merge the PC with the telephone. After nearly a year of anticipation, users this week will finally get […]

Last year, IBM Corp. published the designs for some of its RISC personal computers in the PowerPC Reference Platform, called PReP. But Apple will not base its PowerPC servers on […]

SMS, TSA, and SIDE While at first glance, these terms appear to be more acronyms for the beleaguered network manager to learn, knowing them may be worth the effort. They […]

Finding ways to back up diverse platforms in heterogeneous networks has become increasingly critical. Today's typical network could include UNIX workstations running CAD programs, Macintoshes for desktop publishing, and PCs […]

Dismissing the flap over its UnixExpo announcements as a communication problem, Novell Inc. officials said they will hand their UNIX property rights over to the X/Open Committee--with no UnixWare strings […]

Novell Inc. takes another stab at unifying Unix today by handing the Unix brand name over to an independent committee, the X/Open. Novell also toned down its rhetoric about pushing […]

After several months of closed-door negotiations, Apple Computer Inc., IBM and Novell Inc. plan to unveil next month their alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s OLE object-management standard. Like OLE, the technology, […]

PROVO, Utah--After capturing the keystrokes of LAN users, test engineers at Novell Inc. have prepared a new benchmark for evaluating network performance. This week at its BrainShare conference, Novell plans […]

Unlike fax machines and the world's post offices, E-mail systems march to the beat of different drummers. Disparate environments, which march to proprietary beats, need gateways to communicate until all […]

Within large organizations, networks--like personal computers--usually began as a grass-roots phenomenon. As is often the case with new technologies, there were those who doubted networks were really useful, just as […]

Mail standard gets broader backing By Mitch Ratcliffe Redwood City, Calif. -- Forget what they said about the Open Messaging Interface (OMI) just five months ago. Apple, Lotus Development Corp. […]

Many major LAN companies accepted Novell's invitation to join in the marriage of hub and server technology through its recently unveiled specification known as the hub management interface (HMI). Executives […]