Cisco Slinks Away from Active Directory
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Cisco, which holds a near monopoly on the routers the Internet and corporate
networks are built with, had signed a marketing and technology agreement with
Microsoft to support and promote Active Directory as the only directory service
supported by its routers. It has held hard and fast to that agreement to the
exclusion of directory services that were actually available and actually
worked (Novell's NDS, Sun-Netscape's Alliance, etc.).
While they shared enough information with Novell to allow NDS to manage Cisco routers, Cisco made it clear this was not a Cisco supported product, because Cisco supported only Microsoft Active Directory. Customers made it perfectly clear to Cisco they needed support for other directory services, the ones they could actually use. No dice. Active Directory was it, and only Active Directory. Cisco's own IT organization selected a non-Microsoft directory service for its own e-business applications. Still, the product department said, "Active Directory and only Active Directory". Now, finally, Cisco's product division has recognized it's customer's needs and is supporting directory services that actually work, but they aren't telling anyone unless they pry it out of them. More details at InternetWeek. |
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