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Re: [PLUG] Microsoft's statement about Solaris-based Hotmail (old)
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:
> How? Too resource intensive? Too manpower intensive? Too much training
> required? Everything I've heard about Active Directory is that it's
> just an LDAP server and a suite of tools that use an LDAP server instead
> of Microsoft's standard NT user administration suite (or NIS for that
> matter).
The design of the directory structure, the organizational units, and what
the objects (and their properties) will be.
> Again, why? What is Microsoft doing better at the high end? I've seen
> organizations brought to their knees using Exchange that would be much
> better off using apache, sendmail or qmail on a *NIX box.
I think it's a matter of looking at why Exchange is failing them. In any
event, MS has the multi-threaded kernel, the ACL-based filesystem, and the
support infrastructure that large enterprises want. Linux can, one day,
reach this point; it's just not there yet.
> Sure. StarOffice both reads and writes these formats. Of course, they
> don't guarantee 100% fidelity, but how many users need 100% fidelity
> with every bug and feature in Word or Excel? StarOffice isn't ideal,
> but it fits into most workflows (even if it is quite cumbersome).
I wasn't sure SO went both ways. From what I've heard (haven't had a
chance to use it), SO's only real failing is that it tends to be big and
slow.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000
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