[Fedora-directory-users] Business Case: Advantage Opensource Directory VS Active Directory

[solarflow99]

I've used them both too, and I never noticed any real advantage with AD.  In
fact, FDS would do everything just like you said, and I wasnt forced into
vendor lock-in to do it.  What were your main drawbacks with LDAP?


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Merle Reine <merle.reine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Been using Fedora Directory Server since its inception and up until
> recently, I would have recommended it above all others.  I am a Linux guru,
> windows hater and favor open source over any proprietary product.  That
> being said,  I recently switched to a new company and they happen to be all
> XP and 2003 server along with exchange.
>
> Having had the opportunity to work now with both FDS and Active Directory,
> I can tell you from first hand experience, Active Directory wins hands
> down.  It was easy to setup, easy to replicate, support 6,000 users
> currently at my office and is easily running on a dual core system while
> hardly using any resources.
>
> I am no lover of Microsoft or any of its products but switching to ADAM was
> the best move i could have made.  There is no comparison on ease of setup,
> ease of management, stability.  ADAM wins hands down as much as I hate to
> say it, its true.
>
> Just one person's first hand experience...
>
>
> Merle Reine
> CTO
> Vanguard Industries, Inc.
>
> Email Address: echo zreyr.ervar at tznvy.pbz | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, <cobra at cobradevil.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Andrey and Ben,
>>
>> Thanx for your answers!
>>
>> The document realy explains the differences between both directory's!
>> I'm taking it for input for the why question for our project!
>> For the performance we are going to test that!
>>
>> With kind regards,
>>
>> William van de Velde
>>
>>
>> > Bonjour cobra,
>> >
>> > Monday, August 18, 2008, 4:09:22 PM, you wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > cco> I have a question why i should use an opensource directory server
>> for
>> > my
>> > cco> opensource activities!
>> >
>> > cco> I work for a large company! 70k users
>> >
>> > cco> We have a large MS Windows based infrastructure win2k3 with winxp
>> > cco> workstations.
>> >
>> > cco> Can someone help me with getting the right arguments so i have a
>> > valid
>> > cco> reason to create an opensource directory server?
>> > You can try this document to begin with (written for a customer by
>> > Symas and HP) : http://www.symas.com/documents/Adam-Eval1-0.pdf
>> >
>> >
>> > Andrey Ivanov
>> > tel +33-(0)1-69-33-99-24
>> > fax +33-(0)1-69-33-99-55
>> >
>> > Direction des Systemes d'Information
>> > Ecole Polytechnique
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>> > France
>> >
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