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Active directory is on the back-burner because it just doesn't have the same growth potential as other products. Everyone who wants to use AD is already using i
by initplus 5y ago
Active directory is on the back-burner because it just doesn't have the same growth potential as other products. Everyone who wants to use AD is already using it, and the market size is limited by the number of employees at businesses.
If a business grows their customer base by 100x, they don't grow headcount at the same rate. But their resource consumption of cloud managed services will increase more proportionally to the customer base.
- Spooky23 5y agoIf you sell a customer an application, say AD and ADFS, and hobble it so that you sell them the same services again (Azure P2), that is indeed very profitable. Most of the employee costs are CALs, so they are increasing the price significantly if you need security mechanisms that AD cannot provide. The products for customer use are different and don’t really align with the AD bread and butter story, which has always been employees.