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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi William, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of the things you need to address is the performance / speed of authentication. Can your (AD -) server forest handle the amount of new kind of authentication requests beside the WINS / DNS etc. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have 2-servers ( in replica) of Fedora DS (FDS) with over 800k users. This is only for authentication of our website. There is also an read-only replica of the AD on it for internal use. Till now there is no performance issue. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>We decided to move to FDS due to the amount of external users. We did this only for performance. AD could do it as well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben. </FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Van:</B> fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com namens cobra@cobradevil.org<BR><B>Verzonden:</B> ma 18-8-2008 16:09<BR><B>Aan:</B> fedora-directory-users@redhat.com<BR><B>Onderwerp:</B> [Fedora-directory-users] Business Case: Advantage OpensourceDirectory VS Active Directory<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hello all,<BR><BR>I have a question why i should use an opensource directory server for my<BR>opensource activities!<BR><BR>I work for a large company! 70k users<BR><BR>We have a large MS Windows based infrastructure win2k3 with winxp<BR>workstations.<BR><BR>For our open source servers and workstations we thought to get an<BR>Opensource Directory server because of the specific options that Active<BR>Directory cannot deliver.<BR><BR>But now i get a lot of people who say that active directory can do all of it!<BR><BR>Can someone help me with getting the right arguments so i have a valid<BR>reason to create an opensource directory server?<BR><BR>The things i wanna administer are:<BR>Sudoldap<BR>Freeipa based authentication/dns<BR>application management<BR><BR>and probably a lot more!<BR><BR>Please let me know!<BR><BR>With kind regards,<BR><BR>William van de Velde<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Fedora-directory-users mailing list<BR>Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com<BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>