[NTLUG:Discuss] NIS no longer developed?

[Tom Adelstein]

cjcox at acm.org wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> ...
> 
>>
>> Novell Directory Services seems to look like the way most of the 
>> enterprizes headed when Novell put up their Tools on the OpenLDAP site 
>> over a year ago.
>>
>> If you look at the documentation for the "new technologies" you have 
>> to be a plumber to figure them out.
>>
>> That's why I asked you to share your fax solution.
> 
> 
> I'll gladly share.. as soon as I have something shareable :-)
> I'll gladly share my ideas and thoughts on it if someone
> is working through it currently while I'm doing the same.
> 
>>
>> People know how to fix and patch the LDAP solutions, they just don't 
>> share them. I have seen them working.
>>
>> Here's one you'll like. IBM's Linux Technology Lab started work on a 
>> drop in replacement for Active Directory using Open LDAP about 
>> eighteen months ago. I know, because I did some consulting with an 
>> intern on the project. I developed a Global Address List address 
>> provider for Outlook which looked and behaved like the Exchange GAL 
>> but worked on OpenLDAP. We sold it with Insight Server. SO, IBM 
>> called. Where is this drop in replacement? They had a dozen developers 
>> working on it.
> 
> 
> I know the Samba 3.0 team supposedly has cracked all of this.. but
> I get the feeling that the Samba team is more intrested in
> 0wning the tech rather than integrating (meaning Active Dir. in
> particular)... so I'm anxious to give it a try anyhow.
> 
> I just don't like things that are fragile or complex to administer.
> I like Samba, tough job... they do a great job... but definitely
> with many, many issues.  Samba 3.0 sounds almost too good to
> be true (anybody want to implement and do a presentation?).
> 
>>
>> Not that that matters, but what does matter: what is the future?
>>
>> Have you seen it?
> 
> 
> Future is bleak.  We all have to pay SCO $2,000,000 (penalties and
> interest for using Linux for the past 40 years).  Microsoft revives
> Bob as it's new virtual user interface (where you interact with
> "Bob", the MCSSXE certified virtual persona).  RMS and ESR are killed
> during an "accident" at Geeks for Guns 2032.  Adobe finds their
> patent on the "alphabet" and seeks payment for use.  By 2012, no one
> remembers why they are running SETI as their background screen saver,
> but everyone likes the pretty graphs.
> 
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