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To: ToySoldier who wrote (17560)	3/10/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

ToySoldier, Thanks for the analysis. From what I've read, it looks like nothing much has changed between Novell & Microslop. AD looks like a typical MSFT project: poorly thought out ideas, poorly planned project management, and poor execution which lead to a product with more limitations and problems than positive attributes. AD seems to be a textbook case for how NOT to design a distributed directory service. No one in IT, with half amount of common sense, is going to go for a flat-database design inside one large domain. It's clear to me that the product can't grow with the organization & will wind up choking the network it's supposed to enhance. That + it looks like the database administration package from hell. No way Jose, NDS is going to be the product of choice, even on NT networks, unless & until MSFT can revise AD to be a serious directory service, capable of handling LARGE amounts of data effectively. cheers, cherylw