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Microsoft vs. Open source
I'm a newbie at linux, so that's an issue, as well as the need for Active Directory and Sharepoint functionality.
This is about the gist of what I know for MS vs. opensource application options that i have.
Sharepoint vs. Wiki
Active Directory vs. OpenLDAP
Users will be over 50, less than 100. I hear that OpenLDAP used to be able to handle about 20 logins maximum, and the performance greatly suffers. Is that still true? Are there other similar open source apps?
Maybe some other solution then, for open source and MS combo. .. can Active Directory work with Fedora Enterprise? I hear that Windows Apache isn't very secure. Can you solve that by running linux on/over windows, and apache on that linux?
Security is a concern for management. Me too, but I'm not as managerial except for this intranet.
Or do we just go the easy route, against my supervisor's preferences and run with MS the whole way?
I feel like I'm missing some very obvious solution/combination.
If you know of something, please speak a bit about requirements as well as functionality.
thanks, b
both will get the job done.
as for security, it's only as good as the person implementing it, regardless of OS
Unless you have some complex permissions structure AD is not necessary for a 100 user Intranet and sharepoint is just a bunch of ASP scripts.
Windows 2003, hardened, using Integrated Security & behind properly configured pix or watchguard firewall is very secure and doesnt cost the earth.
