Comment Re:Incorrect assumptions (Score 1) 207
I really can't stand the Windows bashers round here. At least give some credit where credit is due.
AD provides a lot of account management functionality out of the box. (EG AD Users and Computers). Where is this for OpenLDAP? Last time I looked its all third party software. Sure, its free but whats the TCO of the software when you add up the time to stitch all these software pieces together? We run AD in a large organisation and we dont run any extra software with it to be able to use it.
Windows 2003 does provide LVM-style functionality with the OS. Its called Volume Shadow Copy Service, this uses "providers", which by default is the software provider that works with any disk (I assume similar to how LVM works). There is also the option of hardware VSS providers that can do shadow copies/snapshots *on the hardware device* ie the SAN.
You can backup Exchange with NT Backup. No further software required. That said there are a lot of better third party backup solutions out there.
AD provides a lot of account management functionality out of the box. (EG AD Users and Computers). Where is this for OpenLDAP? Last time I looked its all third party software. Sure, its free but whats the TCO of the software when you add up the time to stitch all these software pieces together? We run AD in a large organisation and we dont run any extra software with it to be able to use it.
Windows 2003 does provide LVM-style functionality with the OS. Its called Volume Shadow Copy Service, this uses "providers", which by default is the software provider that works with any disk (I assume similar to how LVM works). There is also the option of hardware VSS providers that can do shadow copies/snapshots *on the hardware device* ie the SAN.
You can backup Exchange with NT Backup. No further software required. That said there are a lot of better third party backup solutions out there.
