Novell has quietly shelved a key directory-integration tool, which is likely to force IT executives with mixed environments to make an either/or choice between NetWare and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 2000.
At issue is the redirect capability of Novell Directory Services (NDS) for Windows NT. Redirect allows users to reroute authentication and access-control calls made to NT 4.0 domains into NDS, which nearly eliminates user management on NT servers.
However, in NDS 8 for NT - the next version of the software - redirect is being replaced by a bi-directional synchronisation tool called DirXML.