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DCE vs. NDS: will middleware worlds collide? (Distributed Computing Environment; NetWare Directory Services)

Business Communications Review, September, 1994 by Passmore, David

Router-based internetworks often enable organizations to create a single, enterprise-wide infrastructure that can satisfy the full range of data transpor needs. However, because of diverse protocol standards, session traffic from different computers often passes through the network like "ships in the night." Users in one workgroup or department frequently cannot interoperate with those in others.

They often have trouble accessing data and applications on other network-attached systems. At the end user level--someone operating at a LAN station--this lack of interoperability is highly visible, while the benefits of modern internetworks--for example, reduced costs for transmission facilities--are not. The use of a common transport protocol like TCP/IP solves...

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