NEWBIE What are the options and tradeoffs for an intrAnet? MS vs. Linux

[bowie101]

Trying to figure out which is the best combo of things for a new intrAnet site (not internet).

Microsoft vs. Open source

I'm a newbie at linux, so that's an issue, as well as the need for Active Directory and Sharepoint functionality.

This is about the gist of what I know for MS vs. opensource application options that i have.

Sharepoint vs. Wiki
Active Directory vs. OpenLDAP

Users will be over 50, less than 100. I hear that OpenLDAP used to be able to handle about 20 logins maximum, and the performance greatly suffers. Is that still true? Are there other similar open source apps?

Maybe some other solution then, for open source and MS combo. .. can Active Directory work with Fedora Enterprise? I hear that Windows Apache isn't very secure. Can you solve that by running linux on/over windows, and apache on that linux?

Security is a concern for management. Me too, but I'm not as managerial except for this intranet.


Or do we just go the easy route, against my supervisor's preferences and run with MS the whole way?

I feel like I'm missing some very obvious solution/combination.

If you know of something, please speak a bit about requirements as well as functionality.
thanks, b

[bowie101]

hi! remember me?

[huw-l]

at my old workplace we used mediawiki as our main intranet resource. We used php-auth to hand authentication off to both the NT domain and the UNIX domain. Worked well for our window and linux users.

The problem with sharepoint is that it only really works properly with windows clients so by rolling it out you are locking yourself into only ever having microsoft clients.

Getting mediawiki to authenticate against AD is not totally trivial but you should be able to hire a contractor to do the work.

HTH

[bowie101]

OK. Thanks. What about AD vs. an OpenLDAP?

I'll look into php-auth.

[huw-l]

If you already have AD you should use that for authentication.

Keep things simple. You don't want two independant authentication systems.

[bowie101]

alright, so now I have to check into how AD works with linux..

thanks

[foobar47]

OpenLDAP is free... not AD !

Have a look here :

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563