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To: t2 who wrote (17620)	3/10/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Paul Reuben	Respond to of 74651

I think you'll enjoy these Jobs/Gates comparisons: fool.com fool.com

To: t2 who wrote (17620)	3/10/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: taxman	Respond to of 74651

"The war of words is over directories, often described as the "white pages" of the Internet. Theoretically, a directory lets you find anything attached to the network -- users, servers, printers, disks. More importantly, a true directory lets you manage all those resources. Manage thousands of users from a single, centralized console. Even when they share PCs. Even when they roam from PC to PC." this article helped to understand the issue. regards, zdnet.com

To: t2 who wrote (17620)	3/11/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

AD = Active Directory MAD = MSFT Active Directory Same thing although the second is more appropriate :)) Taxman hit the nail on the head as a very good basic description of Directory Services. AD is MSFT's version of Directory Services when it comes out with NT5 / WIN2000. Novell's version is called NDS. Netscape has one in production which is really the only other DS of any significance that is competing with NDS and its called Netscape Directory. There are others to certain extents but none have the marketshare that NDS has. Netscape has some marketshare but its not that great from my understanding and because it relies completely on LDAP as its transport protocol, it is also much weaker and much less featured than NDS. Contrary to all the hype in the industry about LDAP, it is a very weak and still quite immature protocol for Directory Services to rely upon to run the internal DS structure. Most DS products have their own proprietary protocol to be the internal communication workhorse of the DS and then the DS has links to allow LDAP connectivity into the DS (like NDS does). Toy