What trends in the industry lend themselves to Novells expertise in networking and administration of computer users?
Those areas where directories are important and enable functions to take place that other products can’t. Our directory is a world-class directory in terms of scalability, reliability and robustness. We’ve scaled it to 1 billion; we can probably scale it bigger than that. Our selling proposition is: Don’t do that, it’s too costly. Take our directory, and we’ll write you the (software) connector to SAP, to PeopleSoft, to Siebel, and any number of leading applications, and connect them, and you never have to rewrite the underlying databases and applications that you currently use. The other one is our whole OneNet strategy. When you’re a CIO or even a marketing person in a part of the company, this stuff is getting very complex. You’re trying to figure out which system to get on and how do you get your data and all that stuff. It’s very, very difficult. We have some very unusual capabilities in that area, again, using the directory. The directory allows you to build policy into the syste
