23 October 2006 - 04:09Vintela Discovered!
John Udell wrote a nice piece about Vintela at Inforworld. It has good disclosure about the relationship between Microsoft and Quest as well as a pretty good overview of both the problem and Vintela's solution.
The payoff line? "... this kind of solution represents the worst kind of vendor lock-in." We agree with that point of view. We'd also mention that Vintela's not cheap either. Symas thinks Open Source solutions avoid both problems.link.
Symas offers Connexitor™ Naming Services, pre-built, certified, and tested binary distributions of PADL's pam_ldap and nss_ldap libraries that support RFC 2307 LDAP authentication. Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX have adopted pluggable authenticaton modules (PAM) and the naming service switch (NSS) as optional method for authenticating users against centralized LDAP directories through various commands. The PADL libraries support the use of an LDAP directory (OpenLDAP or some other) as the source of authentication data.
CNS addresses the non-Windows side of this puzzle. pGINA is an open source package that addresses the Windows side. That means, the enterprise has Open Source choices for LDAP Authentication. So why would you jump into the deadly embrace with Microsoft and their lock-in vendors when you have superior Open Source solutions?
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