I too have been here a long time.

Not as long as you Sri but longer than inode_buddha.

rgds

The fly has a medical condition?

Linus recently shared some fairly vocal preferences for his ideal desktop.

I wonder what your preferred desktop is and why?

rgds

Excuse me?

So eDirectory and Groupwise or Lotus Notes with somewhat superior functionality to AD+exchange just escaped your attention maybe?

MS make it damned hard to run an enterprise once you go above a few thousand employees.

It might take 20 seconds to add a user but then half an hour plus to replicate round a largish AD install. (architecture dependant) either that or the server refuses to process your request. This server is too cool to add your user at the moment!

Plus the software distribution suks. The group management is poor. Backlinks are non-existent and try to extend the schema and you have to bring down all your main servers.

Not really enterprise ready really. But I guess those who have seen nothing but MS domains must think it's rocket science!

More to point when do you think AD will run on Linux?

Did you miss eDirectory running on Linux for the last three years or have you had your head somewhere? oh and it runs on Win(all), HPUX, Solaris, AIX and Netware.

Domino currently runs just fine on Linux, Ok not open source but way more scaleable, useful and secure than the alternatives.

Beside there are numerous LDAP complient tools that easily add users in less than 20 secs to most LDAP implementations. I guess you just haven't looked very hard.

mod the parent down due to inexperience.