bigdaddy01
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Can some one please explain to me the difference between these too, and which one will become more successful ?
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Ldap Or Active Directory
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Active Directory is a kind of LDAP, but is kinda OS specific ... (from what i gathered from various sources, which may or may not be correct 
effectively from this stand point LDAP is the one with the future ... even if Active Directory has a future ...
effectively from this stand point LDAP is the one with the future ... even if Active Directory has a future ...
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bigdaddy01
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Active Directory is Microsloth, so what is LDAP in your a opinion? Unix/web/programs/ ??
Also I have played with Ldap on Iplanet before, I cant see it having a massive future, I mean i am not sure what great application it can provide for the masses. Where active directory is becoming part of an OS. It has to be used, Ldap is more on its own there fore will it not be forced to be used...
I am interested in heading down the Ldap path as it interests me, I want to know if it is going to be around and highly used..
Does any one know if there is a great future for this technology?
Any coments much appreciated
Also I have played with Ldap on Iplanet before, I cant see it having a massive future, I mean i am not sure what great application it can provide for the masses. Where active directory is becoming part of an OS. It has to be used, Ldap is more on its own there fore will it not be forced to be used...
I am interested in heading down the Ldap path as it interests me, I want to know if it is going to be around and highly used..
Does any one know if there is a great future for this technology?
Any coments much appreciated
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bigdaddy01
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Jad, thanks for your info its reasurring to know there is a opinon of future behind Ldap.
Hey I am doing research on a field I want to get in to, I want to hear from people with opinions. Is is worth basing a career around it?
Hey I am doing research on a field I want to get in to, I want to hear from people with opinions. Is is worth basing a career around it?
unixtechie
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Unless you are working for a very large company like Anheuser-Busch there is no basing a career around only LDAP. Usually LDAP is given to the data comm or network team as a subset of their responsibilities.
LDAP is widely used and probably will be into the future, but as I said, you don't only do LDAP - normally.
LDAP is widely used and probably will be into the future, but as I said, you don't only do LDAP - normally.
sleipnir214
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bigdaddy01:
LDAP is a directory service defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in their RFC-2251. Active Directory is a vendor-specific implementation of a directory service and is loosely based on LDAP, but with proprietary extensions.
If you want to know more about LDAP, I recommend that you point your browser to which is the home site of an open-source implementation of an LDAP server, slapd. There is a good introduction on LDAP in general at
Active Directory is, indeed, the de facto standard for Win32. If you have no interest in leaving the realm of Win32, the LDAP is probably of no interest to you. Outside the Win32 realm, however, LDAP is used in lots of places for about the same purposes as Active Directory: single-signon authentication, email routing, lightweight database access, etc.
I don't think you can base a career on either Active Directory or LDAP. They are both nothing more than solutions to data-access problems.
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LDAP is a directory service defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in their RFC-2251. Active Directory is a vendor-specific implementation of a directory service and is loosely based on LDAP, but with proprietary extensions.
If you want to know more about LDAP, I recommend that you point your browser to which is the home site of an open-source implementation of an LDAP server, slapd. There is a good introduction on LDAP in general at
Active Directory is, indeed, the de facto standard for Win32. If you have no interest in leaving the realm of Win32, the LDAP is probably of no interest to you. Outside the Win32 realm, however, LDAP is used in lots of places for about the same purposes as Active Directory: single-signon authentication, email routing, lightweight database access, etc.
I don't think you can base a career on either Active Directory or LDAP. They are both nothing more than solutions to data-access problems.
Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!!
GlenJohnson
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LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email programs use to look up contact information from a server, such as ClickMail Central Directory.
From
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This page brought to you by the makers of ClickMail Central Directory, the LDAP server that runs on classic Macintosh systems. It's LDAP with a Mac user interface.
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I like the last line:
This page brought to you by the makers of ClickMail Central Directory, the LDAP server that runs on classic Macintosh systems. It's LDAP with a Mac user interface.
Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
"I only know that I know nothing."
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