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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. What does this mean? by GuloGulo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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"

    The bolded part is a euphemism for "disaster in progress".

    Forgive my naivety, but isn't this a good thing (as much as MS collaboration can be)? Why is this a "sky is falling" situation?

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    "The government grants you rights, not the other way around."-- beav007. Yes, these people really exist...
  2. hah this is too little too late by DragonTHC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The samba team already made sure it was interoperable. You can use samba/ldap as an AD replacement.

    I have done it.

    MS just wants to save some customers by doing this. I say it's not going to work all that well.

    Those customers are probably not going to ditch windows desktops for linux anytime soon though.

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    They're using their grammar skills there.
  3. Microsoft finally learning? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Now it's a darling because it learned a valuable lesson....

    Ultimately companies that create standards will eventually have to transition to a company that contributes to them.

    I'm no M$ fan at all and that goes back a ways for me. On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be showing signs that they have accepted open source as something that's here to stay (although they hate it).

    Next up on the radar? Google

    Once they became a publicly traded company, responsible for only making a profit for their shareholders, it appears more and more like their motto should transition to "We do less evil than everyone else"

  4. Re:about time.. by ryanvm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only have they not tried to sink Mono with patent lawsuits. I can't think of ANYONE they've EVER attacked with patents.

    I'm tired of hearing this lame FUD scenario from the Slashdot crowd every time MS dabbles in open source.