Directory Service
Although only 36.4 percent of polled corporations deploying AD have enabled all their servers to use and participate in the AD environment, an additional 41 percent are expected to do so within 12 months, according to International Data Corp., of Framingham, Mass. (see chart).
However, according to a separate IDC poll, only 8 percent of IT managers said they were deploying AD because of its role in Microsoft's .Net strategy (see chart). These enterprise users were more interested in AD's ability to lower client management expenses.
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