On Thursday 20 July 2006 23:20, Peter Nixon wrote:
Once again, beware. It is a complex product (as it solves a complex problem!), and typical IDM deployment projects run from 3-12 months in length and involve 5-10 engineers (Oracle, SAP, ActiveDirectory, eDirectory, Domino, Exchange, Aveya etc)
One of the recent Novell Connections magazine issues carried articles on about three or four different authentication products from Novell/Suse. After wading thru the leaden text of these articles I came away convinced that the writer had no clue what the products did, and Novell had no idea of what direction they wanted to take with this morass. I can't imagine entrusting a mission critical network to authentication systems that are so complex that they are just as likely to prevent the system users from getting in as keeping the bad guys out. When Novell proves to me they can get the whole Ldap-postfix-amavis-spamassassin-antivir-cyrus-saslauthd chain working properly after a fresh install of SLES then I might be interested. Fragile is the word that comes to mind. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen