That release will offer native support for IP, rather than requiring IPX-IP conversion, Smith said. Moving forward, Novell will offer versions of NDS for Solaris and Windows NT using a common code base, Smith said. That will eliminate the need for NDS on NetWare even at one location, he said. On the security front, NDS v8 will offer improved support for managing public key infrastructures and cryptography. Currently 40 customers are beta testing NDS v8, which will be made available for an open beta Monday.
Commercial release is slated to ship within the next quarter.