Dealing with Directory Dilemmas?

Bardaris asks: "In my work environment, I maintain a large number of Novell, and Windows servers. Although Novell is the dominant OS, vendor applications are increasingly making the change from Novell based apps, to single NT4/Win 2k servers. This has put a strain on my PDC. Currently the MS boxes are outnumbering my Novell 30 to 22, with more Win 2k servers in the coming months, as each application vendor has found it cheaper to dictate a sole Win server for their app, rather than sharing nicely on Novell. Now I've been tasked with assessing what to do with the Windows environment. My preference leans to eDirectory and dirXML to contain and maintain the Microsoft proliferation, but what of my NT4 PDC. Should I upgrade to Active Directory (if so, how)? Leave it as is until the last possible moment, whatever that may be? Is there a better way? I highly doubt I can sell a Linux/Samba solution, given the current state of the server environment and political climate here in my company, so that's not one of my options. I'm wondering if other Slashdot readers have ran across similar problems and how they tackled this issue."

Comments

Re:Stay with Novell

[MerlynEmrys67]

Active Driectory is like having a diesel car when everybody else has regular cars - you're stuck buying your diesel from the truck stop, where everybody else can fuel up where they'd like.

Ok - I'll have fun with this one (need some flamebait anyway) - yeah just like diesel, cheaper, fewer greenhouse gasses, better gas milage. Plus every gas station I go to has diesel available anyway.

To be slightly more fair, diesel also has a higher ammount of particulate that may be even worse on the environment than the greenhouse gasses, but who knows what will kill us first a 10.5 Earthquake Really Bad Movie, Global Warming Another stinker, or frankly all just dying from a random disease Ok, maybe not so bad

Pick your favorite death below