Thanks Laura My understanding is also that the Domino Directory is tightly bundled with the messaging service. I'm looking at a scenario in which a client wants to expose some information via LDAP. They have both AD and Notes/Domino. My preference would be to point them to AD (or AD/AM), but I need to come up with good reasons for them not to use the Domino Directory, which appears to be their preference. The information I have found so far (on lotus.com) indicates that the Domino Directory schema is extensible and supports LDAP v2 and v3. So apart from the fact that the Domino Directory can't be decoupled from the messaging elements, I'm struggling to find compelling arguments in favour of AD (mainly because I don't know Domino and can't seem to find an independent comparison).
Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 1:27 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Notes/Domino LDAP Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, I'm going to say that that'll be a tough compare since Notes/Domino maps much more closely to Exchange and Groupwise in terms of functionality. IE, it's a groupware/messaging/collaboration environment rather than a proper directory service. In most cases, in fact, a Notes/Domino environment will run on top of AD just like Exchange does, though I think you can hook Domino into a Linux infra as well. My personal recollection of Domino, though this is from several revs ago, was that it was close-but-not-quite-so-good as Outlook in terms of being a cool messaging client, but it gave you more options in terms of collaboration apps. (Sharepoint has likely rendered this comparison obsolete in the intervening years since I was a Notes admin.) A quick Google doesn't return what I'd consider a vendor-neutral comparison of Exchange and Domino, but here's the market-speak from both sides of the house. (Maybe compare them and split the difference. :-)): http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/inotes/compare.html http://www.lotus.com/lotus/offering1.nsf/wdocs/messagingcompetitive?Open Document&cwesite=lotusnotesdom http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/compare/METAEx2k3vNotes.msp x - Laura On 10/5/05, Tony Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone point me at an independent source of information on the > capabilities and limitations of the Notes/Domino directory as compared > with AD? > > Tony -- ----------------------- Laura E. Hunter Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking Author: _Active Directory Consultant's Field Guide_ (http://tinyurl.com/7f8ll) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ######################################################################## ##### This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank You. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the NZ Electronic Transactions Act 2002. This email has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal at Gen-i. ######################################################################## ##### List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
