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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (30241)	2/11/2000 10:54:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Paul, > Let's try this one Actually, lets try two ... I'll reply to your theoretical stories (just for fun), but we also try to stick to my question which is to try and discover the actual truth about exactly what the EU has issue with ... like maybe from their actual documentation. I understand that you have some very strong feelings about this one from your comments, but I guess that even after reading Jimmy's reply I too started to laugh ... you had written a very whimsical story which depicted a humorous (pitiful?) situation which attempted to portray some theoretical situation ... but that wasn't my question. My question is the exact circumstances that the EU has found so controversial ... from your question below, you seem to be stating that the EU is now questioning the Windows APIs? > AD works only on Win2000. I'm not sure that the answer is that simple, since AD is comprised of numerous components. But the ADSI developer APIs (I believe) are only Windows APIs at this time. The ADSI APIs allow for numerous "providers" and so they offer full support to access other back-end directories ... even Novell's NDS. As for the Microsoft directory service, I have only seen it on Windows at this time ... > You write a directory based app to work on AD. This is where things are not so simple. Do you mean "You write a Windows application which uses the ADSI APIs to access a directory service?" To you, this might seem like a minor point, however this is a major point ... For example, I could choose to write an LDAP application on Windows using the OpenLDAP client APIs. Or I could choose to write an LDAP application on Windows using the ADSI APIs. In both of these cases a developer has decided to a) specifically write an application specific to the Windows platform, and b) write an application to access an LDAP directory. The difference is that in the second choice, the developer has decided to use a set of APIs that are specific to Microsoft which improve the flexibility of his application ... and possibly allows it to be used for more than only an LDAP directory. For example, since Novell supports ADSI, the developers application (if written to ADSI) will now talk to LDAP and Novell directories ... and Microsoft directories. ( A brief primer on ADSI for the technically interested ... microsoft.com ) > Does that directory app work on any other OS? So this depends on what you meant by this question. In the example above, the developer wrote a Windows application ... so it will only run on Windows. But they are accessing multiple directory types on the back end (if they wrote to ADSI) ... ... so the answer could be "no" or "yes" depending on your meaning. And I still don't know the exact details of the EU charges ... and so we are both simply creating completely theoretical scenarios and could go on for a long time ... ;-) Scott C. Lemon