On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM, senthilraja P <technocr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another thing is that Network integration is veyr powerful in Windows.. Huh? AFAIK, Windows 95 lifted the TCP/IP stack from *BSD. OK, let's accept it at face value; can Windows mount a NFS or for that matter any other global file system w/o any additional software/driver? > Most big corporates are moving on to Single Sign on, and Linux has been > having major problems in integrating to windows network.. You mean MS-ADS? SSO (LDAP + Kerberso) was there much before MS-ADS came out in Windows 2000. Windows NT domain controller on paper looks like NIS concepts. MS-ADS is LDAP + Kerberos plus their **proprietary** extensions to *open* standards which makes MS-ADS a non standard. To implement the proprietary extensions one has to sign a NDA with MS - which means any FOSS solution will not be able to implement them because of it's own licensing terms. Samba4 is making progress in implementing a clean room version of MS-ADS features but it is not yet ready for production use. > We run a > corporate blogging site in linux, and its really a problem implementing > single sign on.. Please see above. Implement an open standard SSO and you should not have the problem you are talking about. At the end of the day it is the corporations prerogative to choose it's platforms but to blame FOSS for not playing well with MS-ADS .... > Its really an ambiguity to predict where will Linux Move on, unless it sorts > out desktop issues. Please name a few issues. IMO, for task workers (limited functionality Office, Browser) it is already there. I assure you that large Indian MNCs are actively looking at Linux desktop (thin clients) as an alternative for their aging desktop replacement. In desktop migration, I generally suggest to keep a few windows desktops for their power users (especially Excel) - typically they are less than 5% of their staff. My 10 paise. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc