[Ilugc] Linux usage statistics
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Thu May 27 17:05:20 2010
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM, senthilraja P <technocraze@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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