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 >> > >> > -- >> > Fedora-directory-users mailing list >> > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >> > >> >> >> -- >> Fedora-directory-users mailing list >> Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >> > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080824/2a71b776/attachment.html
