It's administratively heavy and needs to be more friendly. IPP technology is an enabling, low-level one that will enable companies like Novell to come up with new services for customers and clients. Attendees wanting to print presentations supplied on a CD will be able to go to the BrainShare URL, click on the printers and choose the one closest to them. Non-NetWare customers wanting Novell's IPP will have to install a NetWare server running NDPS at the back end but will not have to deploy the NetWare client to every desktop. The solution comes in and is deployed.
Nothing changes on the desktop.
While these users might not want to upgrade to NetWare 6.0 immediately, they could find NIP compelling. If they try and gauge the upgrade prices, they're going to find a lot of 6.0 product on the shelf. Other projects being demonstrated include disk pooling and storage technologies. With these technologies, rather than volumes being tied to disks, all disks in a server or storage subsystems will become part of a disk pool, sources said. A volume that is not tied to a single disk but to the entire network would sit on top of that.