Netscape's directory deployment has been a great success on two fronts. First, the company has benefited from a directory service in the ways you, having read the earlier chapters of this book, have probably come to expect. For example, more information is available to all employees , and business processes have been streamlined, particularly the process of getting the computing environment for a new employee up and running. Second, the deployment has met its goal of being a useful test bed for Netscape Directory Server and the directory-enabled applications that Netscape develops. In any complex process such as deploying a directory, there is always room for improvement. Here are a few words of advice based on lessons learned during the directory deployment at Netscape:
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