Active Directory confusion?

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: STaSh

Because MS owns the market and people want single sign-on. That means you use MS for directory services.

If people want single sign on and they feel that AD is a hachet job of ldap, then market forces would shift to a better product, especially if it was a FREE product.

Not when almost all of the products are microsoft. It doesn't make sense to add to the complexity of separate platforms. One of the big pushes right now is to eliminate platforms/complexity. Companies simply have too many applications and there is a huge administrative/operational cost for it.