This thread is very insightful and meaningful than what one would expect
from the subject.
I will add what I know which is not very much.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Arun Khan <knura9@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?
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..
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.