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

[Merle Reine]

Ease of use, speed, dependency.  I love mysql, php, apache, linux but LDAP
is just way too confusing and need to many hands on to manage.  AD just
works, was a breeze to setup (i setup exchange server, ADAM in 2 days
serving 6,000 users) and I had 0 previous experience with either as I am a
linux guy.  It has worked flawlessly with not a single thing done to it
since being setup.  I don't like the licensing fees either but it is worth
the money to not have to do any management on a daily basis and I mean 0
seconds of my time or my admins in the last 3 months.


Merle Reine
CTO
Vanguard Industries, Inc.

Email Address: echo zreyr.ervar at tznvy.pbz | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:28 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> > 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX
>>> > France
>>> >
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