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Microsoft was never a web stack company and always did a poor job at it. Their real power is in the Active Directory. It's very hard to find any decent alternat
by jvehent 11y ago
Microsoft was never a web stack company and always did a poor job at it. Their real power is in the Active Directory. It's very hard to find any decent alternative to that (and no, OpenLDAP isn't the same).
- batou 11y agoYou're right, OpenLDAP isn't the same. It's more of a toolchain and server to build yourself a directory implementation on top of. But when we look at our organisation, all we need is simple SSO for a few applications. We don't actually need all of the extensions like GPO, management tooling etc. Incidentally this becomes cost and noise.
- frik 11y agoTrue. Microsoft originally envisioned "ActiveDirectory" (in 1994, before it got that name) to replace DNS. http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/timeline/docs/di_killerapp_InternetMemo.rtf http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t... The original plans for dotNet were "applications as a service" in 1999 and what is known as their "Azure" cloud service platform is heading the same direction (like the plans about AD in 1994) too.