# Has anyone else ever used Lanzador? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 26, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258 "2016-01-26T13:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/1 "2016-01-26T13:31:24Z")
It is a software package similar to Active Directory. I used it when I worked on an upgrade project for a utility company. I have had a lot of job interviews where I was asked if I had experience with Active Directory. I don’t, but I told ten about Lanzador. Nobody seems to have heard of it before. Has anyone else here used it? ---
**Author:** ![andrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@andrewm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/2 "2016-07-14T02:02:59Z")
Is it maybe just a matter of a language barrier issue? Can’t find any AD-like software by that name; “Lanzador” seems to be Spanish for “launcher” which is a pretty common generic software term. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/3 "2016-07-14T02:23:21Z")
It actually might be. The company where I used Lanzador _was_ owned by a parent company in Spain. We did have random things that were refered to in Spanish. Also, a lot of problems happened on that project for the exact reason that we were in the USA, and the bosses were in Spain. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/4 "2016-07-14T14:29:54Z")
> [@andrewm](#): > > Is it maybe just a matter of a language barrier issue? Can’t find any AD-like software by that name; “Lanzador” seems to be Spanish for “launcher” which is a pretty common generic software term. OTOH, it’s also Spanish for “pitcher”, as in baseball. And most of the Google hits I find are related to that. Googling for “Lanzador software” returns mostly wildly variable non-sequiturs and irrelevancies. (And also this very thread on the SDMB, as the second hit. Not a good sign, IMHO.) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/5 "2016-07-14T20:56:07Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > It is a software package similar to Active Directory. I used it when I worked on an upgrade project for a utility company. I have had a lot of job interviews where I was asked if I had experience with Active Directory. I don’t, but I told ten about Lanzador. Nobody seems to have heard of it before. Has anyone else here used it? Can you find the product you speak of using Google? If so, please provide a link. If you cannot, that’s probably why those 10 never heard of it. The lanzador crew might need to hire a marketing team. If I were interviewing someone and they referred to AD as a “software package”, I’d probably find a polite way to end the interview. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/6 "2016-07-14T21:30:53Z")
Yeah, I can’t find anything about it at all. I wonder if it’s actually the name of a bespoke startup script that someone wrote internally. (At least, that’s the only sense in which I can think of linking or comparing it to AD - someone might have crafted a logon script that implements policies etc on machines, based on user identity) ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/7 "2016-07-15T14:30:07Z")
Yeah, I’m starting to think it was something they made internally. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/8 "2016-07-15T14:46:29Z")
Another thing. If, as suggested, Lanzador is a script launcher (or perhaps it’s an installer like InstallShield?), that’s quite different from Active Directory, which, in my experience is used for managing user and computer accounts and security and mail group memberships. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/9 "2016-07-15T16:36:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Another thing. If, as suggested, Lanzador is a script launcher (or perhaps it’s an installer like InstallShield?), that’s quite different from Active Directory, which, in my experience is used for managing user and computer accounts and security and mail group memberships. It was a script launcher, and it also managed software updates My bosses told us that it was like AD, and since I had never used AD, I had no reason to doubt them. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/10 "2016-07-15T16:43:45Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > It was a script launcher, and it also managed software updates **My bosses told us that it was like AD** , and since I had never used AD, I had no reason to doubt them. _There’s_ your problem. 😃 Haha, only serious. I’d be highly skeptical of such a technical analogy given by a great many of my own bosses, who routinely demonstrate how little they actually understand technology. And I’m a systems engineer, as were many of the bosses I speak of. Maybe your bosses are secretly geek ninjas, and they’re both perfectly serious and completely correct. But nothing I’m seeing out there in Google-land, or in what you’ve described, supports that assumption. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-used-lanzador/744258/11 "2016-07-15T17:02:12Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > It was a script launcher, and it also managed software updates My bosses told us that it was like AD, and since I had never used AD, I had no reason to doubt them. As described, that is nothing like AD. Maybe a very small component of AD if you squint your eyes and look real hard…