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IBM has had about 10 different solutions over the years and they were all trash. Tivoli is one good example. It's actually funny how many horrible directory and groupware products IBM has flopped about with. IBM's crap is always built on a teetering stack of Websphere and requires a fleet of servers to present a GUI that looks like a 1990s medical billing form. And then it doesn't work anyway.
Apple doesn't care about the enterprise.
Anyway, you're completely right - every major enterprise I've ever been a part of uses Active Directory. I suppose maybe Apple doesn't and probably RedHat doesn't (ha! now they have to use some shitty IBM product! Serves them right.)
You're over-generalizing.
In my not-so-humble opinion, there are only three Microsoft products that are worth a damn: Office, SQL Server, and Active Directory, and I'm willing to accept arguments against Office. But AD is one of those just-works things. I don't know who has downtime and issues with AD but it's really a dead-simple product.
Okay I get that, but ...
I feel like a host isn't obligated to do so unless there is an abuse report.
I mean, isn't this how it always worked?
Sure, a host can monitor their network for obvious violations, but I believe it's not their job to check for licenses, be it an operating system or even a PHP software.
All the providers that offer custom ISO that I've used (DO, Vultr and LunaNode for example) had no issues of you running whatever OS you want, including Windows, while they also offer Windows licenses.
Some even have tutorials on how to do it.
Even the big providers will sometimes simply just tell you it's unsupported and run at your own risk.
I agree, but Microsoft doesn't. If a host wants to maintain a positive relationship with Microsoft as a license vendor, they might consider that factor when deciding how they approach it.
That hasn't been my experience. Upgrading or migrating Windows is cake. But an EOL 3-5 year Linux distro is fucking hell. Now that distros are going 5/10 years, this will be less of a problem, but your experience hasn't been my experience. I can go back and do win98 and XP shit that doesn't need encryption much, much better.
I, absolutely, love, that description. SPOT ON!
Yup, they lean on 3rd party crap for enterprise. Never works right.
My last 'enterprise' was 100-150 employees, and it worked well with mac endpoint PCs and using openldap for directory, but the desktop/laptops weren't tied into the directory. They were all assigned to personal use with local root access to the employee.
We used ldap for the various web applications that ran within the business. I actually used it as the backend for door access control as well. that was delightful!
phpldapadmin for any manual tweaking of the directory, and cli scriptlets I wrote for the common stuff (hiring, firing, group maintenance) and a php page I found and modified to handle user initiated password changes/resets.