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When Microsoft was charged with antitrust violations by a European court in 2004, they agreed to make all the information for network authentication with Active Directory available on fair terms. With substantial effort, the open source Samba project was able to negotiate terms that resulted in documentation becoming available to the project.

drade je napisao/la:
Samba4 je na razini AD 2003, barem bila prije nekog vremena (moram to isprobati). Samo da se Cro trziste otarasi fol "integratora" koji forsaju MS solucije kao bogom dane.

glaskoncILLa je napisao/la:

drade je napisao/la:
Samba4 je na razini AD 2003, barem bila prije nekog vremena (moram to isprobati). Samo da se Cro trziste otarasi fol "integratora" koji forsaju MS solucije kao bogom dane.

njima mozda i jesu bogom dane, ima se klikalica, ima se mail od podrske, a cijelu pricu ionako sponzorira korisnik.

March 18, 2004: Direct negotiations between Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer and EU Commissioner Mario Monti break down.

March 24, 2004: EU fines Microsoft 497 euros ($613 million), and orders the developer to release a version of Windows XP without Media Player. Also demands Microsoft release protocols to rival server software makers.


July 12, 2006: Commission slaps Microsoft with 280.5 million euro ($358 million) fine for non-compliance, and threatens 3 million euro ($3.8 million) per day fine after July 31 if the company continues to thumb its nose at the EU.

The availability of Samba 4 will do Microsoft's server business some harm but will do more good for Windows over the long run.

Microsoft went far beyond just releasing the protocols and has been helping the Samba team throughout the process -- though slow and laborious as it was.

Microsoft even offered up a few words of compliment to the Samba team with the release of version 4 this week. That doesn't suggest to me that Samba is going to put Microsoft out of business any time soon.

"Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms," said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. "We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality."