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The key here is that AD was designed from the beginning to "own" the network. It's been the linchpin in Microsoft's stranglehold on the network. Every time you implement an AD domain controller, you suddenly find yourself getting sucked into more and more Microsoft tools, because they "just seem to work better" with the other MS tools you are using.

This is a sort of bittersweet victory, because this is really bowing to the protocols which Microsoft created, primarily to support Microsoft clients and services. However, as organizations start to incorporate this tool into their own solutions (much like Samba3 has been incorporated into many, many different solutions and appliances), then you will start to see some really interesting things happening.

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The Observer

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