● 01.12.07

●● “It’s an Interoperability Deal”, They Argue, But Where’s the So-called ‘Interoperability’?

Posted in Formats, Interoperability, Samba, Virtualisation at 11:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

The closer we look at some recent developments, the more we become skeptic on the deal. We wish to present two recent ‘exhibits’, which will hopefully help you make proper judgment based on developers’ behaviour.

The first of the two refers to Samba.

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One of the things you’ll notice quickly is that by default, Windows Vista will not map samba shares – nor can you use Samba as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller). This is due to the default security policy of Windows Vista only using NTLMv2 for authentication – something Samba doesn’t support as yet.

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This relates to a fairly recent interview where Allison said Microsoft engineers had been told to “f**k with Samba”.

The more recent news comes from LinuxWorld. Once again, Linux takes the back seat and interoperability gets broken, not improved.

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In a nutshell, Exchange 2007 can’t run on Microsoft’s most current virtualization software… In any case, users are already reacting, especially in regards to virtualization, which has become a hot bed of networking activity, as well as, a major area of competition for Microsoft with VMWare and open source Xen on Linux platforms.

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