Just ditch the MS stuff and come to the *nix/bsd side, pasture is a lot greener.
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My clients will once Unixy programmers port over all the productive applications they rely on to *nix/bsd. Get working!
There is no *NIX/BSD side to speak of.
I mean, sure, as a server Linux is exceptional. But as a client it is not even competitive in the business environment.
It isn't cost effective, time effective, or even well supported.
What do you think OSX is based on?
I wouldn't use OSX in an enterprise either. For almost exactly the same reasons.
What's wrong with OS X in the enterprise?
Many large companies have ended up with large installations because of a choose-your-own-laptop policy.
I hope to see a day when the perception of modern Linux environments will change. Ubuntu for example is more than capable of being used in a business environment.
You can use anything in an enterprise if you have infinite budgets and time.
Ubuntu is easily the furthest any Linux vendor has come at producing a workable client, but there is still a long way to go.
Right now managing Ubuntu centrally is painful - I mean having it hook into Kerberos is easy enough but that only gives you control over users and remote files, you still have little control or visibility over the client OS its self.
Care to explain?
I think Canonical offers a service for this.
You want me to explain away your vague hand waving?
No, I mistakenly thought you could have some insight on the matter.
Building a remote management solution that can mix the functionality of Active Directory and LDAP with Chef is one of the startup ideas I've been pondering lately.