So eDirectory and Groupwise or Lotus Notes with somewhat superior functionality to AD+exchange just escaped your attention maybe?
MS make it damned hard to run an enterprise once you go above a few thousand employees.
It might take 20 seconds to add a user but then half an hour plus to replicate round a largish AD install. (architecture dependant) either that or the server refuses to process your request. This server is too cool to add your user at the moment!
Plus the software distribution suks. The group management is poor. Backlinks are non-existent and try to extend the schema and you have to bring down all your main servers.
Not really enterprise ready really. But I guess those who have seen nothing but MS domains must think it's rocket science!
More to point when do you think AD will run on Linux?
Did you miss eDirectory running on Linux for the last three years or have you had your head somewhere? oh and it runs on Win(all), HPUX, Solaris, AIX and Netware.
Domino currently runs just fine on Linux, Ok not open source but way more scaleable, useful and secure than the alternatives.
Beside there are numerous LDAP complient tools that easily add users in less than 20 secs to most LDAP implementations. I guess you just haven't looked very hard.
Delivering solutions is not about "what technology you know" but about "how to solve a business need".
We all live with constraints and sometimes you may not be able to deliver your favourite flavour of technology.
If the best choice is Microsoft, Novell, Linux whatever then thats life, deliver the solution and move on... but consider, when that is done how can you use what you have delivered to go one step further and arrive at something truly world class?
If all businesses use the same technology then where is their competitive edge?
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I too have been here a long time.
Not as long as you Sri but longer than inode_buddha.
rgds
The fly has a medical condition?
Linus recently shared some fairly vocal preferences for his ideal desktop.
I wonder what your preferred desktop is and why?
rgds
Excuse me?
So eDirectory and Groupwise or Lotus Notes with somewhat superior functionality to AD+exchange just escaped your attention maybe?
MS make it damned hard to run an enterprise once you go above a few thousand employees.
It might take 20 seconds to add a user but then half an hour plus to replicate round a largish AD install. (architecture dependant) either that or the server refuses to process your request. This server is too cool to add your user at the moment!
Plus the software distribution suks. The group management is poor. Backlinks are non-existent and try to extend the schema and you have to bring down all your main servers.
Not really enterprise ready really. But I guess those who have seen nothing but MS domains must think it's rocket science!
More to point when do you think AD will run on Linux?
Did you miss eDirectory running on Linux for the last three years or have you had your head somewhere? oh and it runs on Win(all), HPUX, Solaris, AIX and Netware.
Domino currently runs just fine on Linux, Ok not open source but way more scaleable, useful and secure than the alternatives.
Beside there are numerous LDAP complient tools that easily add users in less than 20 secs to most LDAP implementations. I guess you just haven't looked very hard.
mod the parent down due to inexperience.
Hey I was a chick once .. then I changed!
Delivering solutions is not about "what technology you know" but about "how to solve a business need".
... but consider, when that is done how can you use what you have delivered to go one step further and arrive at something truly world class?
We all live with constraints and sometimes you may not be able to deliver your favourite flavour of technology.
If the best choice is Microsoft, Novell, Linux whatever then thats life, deliver the solution and move on
If all businesses use the same technology then where is their competitive edge?
Mj
UK IT consultant.
Is it just me or is this just ... not funny?
Slightly less equally vulnerable.
Slightly faster.
Slightly more reliable.
Slightly more manageable.
Slightly cheaper.
Slightly less pain.
Anyone else notice almost every post has an SD advert at the top.
Did anyone else even care to read past the letters SD?
Mj
BT - bunch of to**ers.
Mj
Aprat from the systems, the place and the events it might have been about me!
Mj
http://www.ldapzone.com
http://developer.novell.com
http://www.openldap.org
Just thought I'd list them!
Mj