Schwab helps fly the Novell flag

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON NOVELL NETWARE TIPS
07/21/05
Today's focus: Schwab helps fly the Novell flag

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Today's focus: Schwab helps fly the Novell flag

By Dave Kearns

I was in San Diego last week for the annual Catalyst conference
put on by the Burton Group. This was the 11th annual gathering
of those in the business of identity management, along with a
few other disciplines, and it was, as always an enjoyable
experience. Novell participated in the Federation
Interoperability demo that highlighted the first night of the
event. The interoperability event was the first of its kind and
demonstrated how identity federation products can co-exist in a
multi-protocol scenario. As expected, Novell's products
performed flawlessly.

Frank Auger Novell Vice President of product management for
identity-driven products also participated in a roundtable
discussion about how regulatory compliance impacts identity
management programs.

I expected those things, but what I didn't expect was what I
heard on the second day of the event.

Ken Weiss, technical director for Charles Schwab gave a session
entitled "Using Web Services to Manage Identity and Access." In
it, he outlined Schwab's journey from an assortment of
mismatched, rag-tag, stand-alone products to an integrated
state-of-the-art set of identity management services. He talked
about Novell's eDirectory and its Identity Manager product - and
they were part of the final Schwab system, not the old stuff
that got thrown out.

It's so refreshing to hear someone who isn't connected to the
company talk about how Novell is a key to their business and a
core part of their infrastructure. Even better, Novell played an
important part in the solution, but was certainly not the only
provider. The list included Oblix CoreID, Novell Identity
Manager, Novell eDirectory, BEA WebLogic and Red Hat Advanced
Server. And it all worked well together.

I've heard from some of you that I may sometimes tend to
emphasize the negative aspects of Novell's current directions.
And I'll admit that the company takes some steps that do mystify
me. But it still heartens me to hear about customers who are
using Novell's products - especially the long-established
products - to solve current problems using leading edge
technologies such as Schwab's Web services/service oriented
architecture (SOA) approach.

The downside is that I didn't hear about this from Novell, yet
it is something that users and implementers want to hear about -
it was the one presentation that kept popping up in all of my
discussions throughout the week. A press release, a case study
or some bit of publicity about this could go a long way towards
helping you convince your management that Novell products are
still a viable choice and perhaps stem the tide of enterprises
moving to Windows servers. We can only hope that something will
be forthcoming.
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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subjects ranging from patch management and spyware to promises
and risks of automated security services.
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