Report From COMDEX: Convergence The Key To Novell's Internet of [...]
Report From COMDEX: Convergence The Key To Novell's Internet of the Future
📅 - Novell CTO Dr. Carl Ledbetter outlined his company's vision of the Internet of the future Friday in a keynote address on the final day of Comdex 2001 in Toronto.
The energetic executive of the global Internet services company gave an enthusiastic, hour-long speech that re-iterated a point Microsoft Canada President Frank Klegg hammered home repeatedly yesterday: the key to the future of the Internet is convergence.
Much like Microsoft's .Net initiative, Novell has embarked on a campaign to promote its "one Net" vision, which supports introducing distributed information sharing so that consumers and businesses can access data from virtually anywhere at any time.
The main difference between the two initiatives is that Novell supports the concept of open-source development while Microsoft does not.
Ledbetter even took a couple of swings at Microsoft, saying the software firm's much-publicized "blue screen" error problem was a "computer's version of Alzheimer's".
Problems like these, he said, are what prevents the Internet from being used to its full potential by consumers and businesses.
"The real impediment to the usefulness of the Internet... is not how much it costs," he said. "It's not easy enough to use."
Ledbetter said companies and governments needed to establish consumer trust and policies to facilitate an Internet that is much easier to use. He pegged the key issues as being the increasing of security standards and allowing users to retain a personalized set of identifiers, eliminating the need for consumers to repeatedly create online identities when conducting online transactions.
"Security policies are complicated," he said, adding the only way consumers will ever fully trust doing business on the Internet is when they are sure that governments and businesses aren't invading their privacy through methods like cookies, thereby ensuring "there are no secret keys somewhere."
Ledbetter cited Web site finditinutah.com as a strong example of Novell's belief in security and convergence, outlining the e-commerce directory's mix of power and ease of use.
"We want to provide access... in away that ensures privacy and respects security," he said.
Comdex wraps up this afternoon.
The energetic executive of the global Internet services company gave an enthusiastic, hour-long speech that re-iterated a point Microsoft Canada President Frank Klegg hammered home repeatedly yesterday: the key to the future of the Internet is convergence.
Much like Microsoft's .Net initiative, Novell has embarked on a campaign to promote its "one Net" vision, which supports introducing distributed information sharing so that consumers and businesses can access data from virtually anywhere at any time.
The main difference between the two initiatives is that Novell supports the concept of open-source development while Microsoft does not.
Ledbetter even took a couple of swings at Microsoft, saying the software firm's much-publicized "blue screen" error problem was a "computer's version of Alzheimer's".
Problems like these, he said, are what prevents the Internet from being used to its full potential by consumers and businesses.
"The real impediment to the usefulness of the Internet... is not how much it costs," he said. "It's not easy enough to use."
Ledbetter said companies and governments needed to establish consumer trust and policies to facilitate an Internet that is much easier to use. He pegged the key issues as being the increasing of security standards and allowing users to retain a personalized set of identifiers, eliminating the need for consumers to repeatedly create online identities when conducting online transactions.
"Security policies are complicated," he said, adding the only way consumers will ever fully trust doing business on the Internet is when they are sure that governments and businesses aren't invading their privacy through methods like cookies, thereby ensuring "there are no secret keys somewhere."
Ledbetter cited Web site finditinutah.com as a strong example of Novell's belief in security and convergence, outlining the e-commerce directory's mix of power and ease of use.
"We want to provide access... in away that ensures privacy and respects security," he said.
Comdex wraps up this afternoon.
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