Banyan did this YEARS ago (Score 1)

Banyan VINES ran on Unix (probably would have on LInux had it been around) in the early 90s and had an intergrated directory service (StreetTalk), email, chat, file/print services. Is interesting that now Novell is moving toward a similar platform. Its too bad that Banyan didn't open source their software when they got out of the NOS business.