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Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this'll-end-well dept.

JP writes "Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network experience, now is the time to get coding."

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  1. WTF?! by cosmocain · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no car analogy to describe my deranged stare.

    1. Re:WTF?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not even the Multipla?

    2. Re:WTF?! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      Me too. Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?

      Sitting in his garage, on the floor, slack jawed in wonder.

      His attempt to put the engine from a Caterpillar D9 into his Miata were ... somehow successful.

      (Well, you did ask for a bad analogy, didn't you?)

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    3. Re:WTF?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/a/ae/Old-macro.jpg

    4. Re:WTF?! by sorak · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's no car analogy to describe my deranged stare.

      What if you saw a car humping a camel while Lindsay Lohan mud-wrestled Oprah Winfrey in the back seat? Would that be a good car analogy for this occurance?

  2. Re:about time.. by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

    since playing well with other operating systems must always be an advantage.

    Heh, I don't know about always. I don't recall having many advantages when networking win2k and win98 machines back in the day.

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  3. Bad analogies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This seems roughly akin to two soldiers from opposing armies suddenly having brunch and discussing the finer points of shooting people.

  4. EEE. Embrace, Extend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    hmmm what was that last one again?

  5. Hell officially freezes over... by markp93 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and yet the Cubs still can't win the World Series. :(

  6. Re:about time.. by somersault · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Microsoft products are loosing ground, they have a great future in the mining and dredging industries! Imagine being able to dig things up without all that expensive heavy machinery!

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    which is totally what she said
  7. Re:about time.. by TomorrowPlusX · · Score: 5, Funny

    They haven't done this to Mono yet, as far as I know. They're even helping Mono with Moonlight.

    I'm not a Microsoft fan, but you know, it's *possible* they're not as evil as they used to be.

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  8. Re:about time.. by SnarfQuest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft needs a working version of this code to "innovate" into their next version of Windows.

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