Hi All, Happy to see so many views on this topic. I just shared my experiences over the past few years. the reality is that most MNC's have a centralised authentication system, which unfortunately is MS AD. the intranet sites may be powered by Linux, and in such case, there is the necessity that Linux server has to integrate with windows domain.
If that is possible, then i am sure, much of the intranet sites will be powered using Linux rather than Windows, as it would greatly reduce their Project and Account Cost for each manager. There are few open source apache modules like mod_NTLM, mod_auth_kerb.. but there is hell lot of problem in implementing those.. In my view, this should be a best case for taking it up as research project by ME students, who really want to do programming at system level involving cryptography etc.. Infact i used to say this to those students who ask me about final year project.. On Linux as Desktop, we have to accept the reality that, how far linux has evolved through ubuntu, it still lack the finesse of windows, which inspite of its crashes, is ruling the roost.. what is that special thing that windows has as edge over linux.. Is it possible for us to find it without locking ourseves to FOSS ideology.. in my view, more than ideology, the purpose is important.. and here our purpose is NOT to uphold FOSS, but to improve FOSS to match the microsoft's feature set.. many of the FOSS softwares exceed microsoft based products, but there are key areas where FOSS is really lacking.. Desktop is one such thing.. we need to understand the strengths and weakness of FOSS vs MS to give MS a tough fight Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
