Posted 8:57 AM

Less filling - more data!

My Network World colleague John Fontana reports this week that Microsoft has shipped a public beta of Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM - aka "ADLite"). In the story, he quotes consultant and author Nelson Ruest as saying “It is critical for Microsoft to separate the NOS directory and the application directory. The NOS directory has to be stable and secure but when you make application schema changes they replicate everywhere and you can’t ever get rid of them.”
Uh, Nelson? As an application vendor I also want my data storage to be "stable and secure" - and I want that data available wherever the application might be run! What's the ssense of having directory-enabled applications if you can't retrieve your personal configuration no matter where on the network you happen to be?
This isn't an "improvement" in Active Directory - its an acknowledgement that AD is simply not ready for enterprise computing.