Goodbye Active Directory?

For me, just maybe.  I'm going to at least give this a solid look.

We have a loose migration plan for all of our x64-based Microsoft Windows servers to IBM Power Systems.  All except our Active Directory servers.  We use those for Group Policy, Domain authentication, Domino web authentication, DNS and a few other familiar functions.

As per ZDNet, the release of Samba 4 appears to be a viable alternative to Active Directory.  More to come once I dig a bit more information about it.  I wonder if I can run it on IBM i?   :)

http://www.zdnet.com/samba-4-released-brings-free-alternative-to-active-directory-7000008654/