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On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:52 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">yeah but pclinuxos relies heavily on mandriva.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">plus suse enterprise has a whole load of domain and ad joining options</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">when you install it so it's part way there for ms intergration</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">already. plus novell have netware, their exchange veritent and host of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">other products to would be nice for ms to have - or at least knock</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">out.</FONT>
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Netware is actually an IPX/SPX stack for networking which is also TCP/IP compliant and includes some business enabling products like eDirectory, I think you're thinking of netmail/groupwise which is their _equivelent_ rather than variant (variant suggests that it is based on exchange) which are being superseded by Hula. Also you'll find that if you configure winbind in smb.conf and pam and type net ads join you can join an AD domain easily. This has worked out of the box on redhat for some time (with a GUI on install), novell didn't really do anything new with this other than allow multiple domains to be listed in the GDM login screen. What is really behind their directory service integration is the kerberos integration (which microsofts standard is heavily skewed) SSO and Directory -> mail integration, eDirectory is great at managing identities but lacks the email configuration control found in AD for instance mail forwards and distribution groups. <BR>
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Hula + sendmail will eventually kill off the exchange market but this is going to take a long time.<BR>
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I honestly can't believe the seriously silly conclusions people have jumped to over this, in all seriousness this is a business deal _NOT_ an intellectual property purchase. If microsoft ever get into the Linux game as a distributor I'll eat my red fedora!<BR>
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K,<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 03/11/06, Colin_The_Technician <<A HREF="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com">binarysignal@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If they were going to release a MS distro I am sure they would just</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> buy one up like PCLinuxOS and rebrand it.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If I was the PCLinuxOS guy I would be planning what I would spend all</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the millions MS would give me for my OS.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Colin</FONT>
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