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Its a huge buzz word these days--Interoperability. With it comes the promise of seamless integration of what would otherwise seem like a disconnected and disjointed mass of servers staring at you in the face and laughing at your powerlessness in their presence. No one wants conflict, especially not with your infrastructure. For all the buzz, though, work is diligently being done at Red Hat and in the Fedora project on technologies which enhance, improve and advance the cause of interoperability. Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 26th and along with it comes some interesting new interoperability related features. | Its a huge buzz word these days--Interoperability. With it comes the promise of seamless integration of what would otherwise seem like a disconnected and disjointed mass of servers staring at you in the face and laughing at your powerlessness in their presence. No one wants conflict, especially not with your infrastructure. For all the buzz, though, work is diligently being done at Red Hat and in the Fedora project on technologies which enhance, improve and advance the cause of interoperability. Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 26th and along with it comes some interesting new interoperability related features. | ||
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Fedora 11 is sure to deliver on the promise of greater interoperability which will soon land in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release near you. Look for these features now and a continued effort to improve all these and more in Fedora 12, upcoming releases of RHEL and beyond. | Fedora 11 is sure to deliver on the promise of greater interoperability which will soon land in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release near you. Look for these features now and a continued effort to improve all these and more in Fedora 12, upcoming releases of RHEL and beyond. | ||
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This is a draft of two entries for the Red Hat Press Blog
Interoperability
Its a huge buzz word these days--Interoperability. With it comes the promise of seamless integration of what would otherwise seem like a disconnected and disjointed mass of servers staring at you in the face and laughing at your powerlessness in their presence. No one wants conflict, especially not with your infrastructure. For all the buzz, though, work is diligently being done at Red Hat and in the Fedora project on technologies which enhance, improve and advance the cause of interoperability. Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 26th and along with it comes some interesting new interoperability related features.
Microsoft Exchange has become a staple in many IT environments. Its powerful and flexible groupware features are what make it so popular amongst so many, in organazation ranging from tens to thousands of people. And yet, it has been almost impossible to use its full functionality through an open source client--until now. Exchange utilizes a proprietary protocol, MAPI, developed by Microsoft to provide its features. OpenChange is the first Open Source implementation of the mapi protocol.
OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols. MAPI stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface and is used within Microsoft Exchange. The OpenChange implementation provides a client-side library which can be used in existing messaging clients to offer native compatibility first with Exchange. Using the 'libmapi' library OpenChange allows clients such as Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, etc. to utilize the full range of MAPI functioniality including messaging, shared calendars, contact databases, public folders, notes and tasks. They now all speak the same language, no matter which platform you are on.
In order to enable OpenChange and libmapi to function properly, parts of Samba 4, the Open Source SMB/CIFS software suite, have begun to trickle into the Fedora release. Samba is the software that allows Linux hosts to use services such as Windows File and Printer Sharing, minimal authentication and authorization functionality and name resolution. Samba 4 promises to greatly enhances this baseline functionality by adding full Active Directory logon and administration support, built-in LDAP and Kerberos servers, a generic security subsystem and better scalability. "Some parts of Samba 4 are reaching stability and we included those libraries that enable other projects like OpenChange. However, most of these libraries are still subject to change but they are heading toward stability, and we closely collaborate with upstream in the stabilization effort" said Simo Sorce, a Red Hat Engineer and Samba Upstream Developer.
Fedora 11 is sure to deliver on the promise of greater interoperability which will soon land in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release near you. Look for these features now and a continued effort to improve all these and more in Fedora 12, upcoming releases of RHEL and beyond.