Women in Technology  Hear us Roar    Unfinished Business Part 2:
Closing the Circle Subject:   Name them... Date:   2003-07-12
10:51:17 From:   anonymous2 "But a majority of medium and large
enterprises have switched over to Active Directory because it's
not possible to run a large Windows shop without it."  Last time
I checked, many Fortune 1000 companies were still eDirectory (or
even NDS) shops or remained NT Domain shops.  We have Windows
2000 but stuck with the NT Domain model. It wasn't important
anyways as we have Novell's directory service in play and use
Novell Account Manager to manage both NDS/eDirectory and the NT
Domain model. NAM will also manage UNIX PAM and Windows
ActiveDirectory services.  Using other Novell tools such as
DirXML we can control just about anything. Microsoft's
equivalent is more of an "uberdirectory" than a metadirectory.
In that, the data is controlled and stored in AD rather than
sync'd as in eDirectory with the other services. This means that
while eDirectory remains lean