28 April 08 - 06:57Musical Chairs

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17 April 08 - 06:32MySQL Conference BOF

Jordan, Howard and I (the Symas contingent) were at the O'Reilly/MySQL conference for a Birds of a Feather on an OpenLDAP back-end we've been doing for MySQL. This is the first blog entry raving about it.

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15 April 08 - 03:33Jonathan's on MySQL Conference Day

We at Symas read this blog entry by Jonathan Schwartz (CEO of Sun) with some pleasure. We can't really talk about why, but it's reassuring that Jonathan gets this open source collaboration thing so clearly. (more)

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12 April 08 - 05:15"The Right Thing?" ... a late April Fool's Post(?)

It looks (to me) like James McGovern took a while to write his April 1st posting to his blog. I take my hint from the graphics. And I chuckled along with the joke. (more)

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01 April 08 - 01:46Jumping on the Java Bandwagon

We've written a lot about Java on this blog, and its inherent inefficiencies. Still, despite its problems, it's definitely growing in popularity, while the number of good C programmers continues to decline. As such, it seems inevitable that the OpenLDAP Project will have to develop a Java implementation of slapd sooner or later. So today we've unveiled an experimental build of slapd written in Java from the Symas skunkworks. Initial results are encouraging; its performance appears to be on par with the C implementation. More details on the design approach will be presented at the upcoming OpenLDAP Developers' Day conference.

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27 March 08 - 21:21Billions and Billions Served

Our friend Gavin at Suretec brought this ComputerWorld article to our attention, describing a white paper Oracle just published about benchmarking their OID server with a 2 billion entry database. I guess they seem to think this was a world's first or something, topping Novell's boasts of a 1 billion entry database a few years back. I hate to break it to the OID guys, but in fact I benchmarked OpenLDAP with a 5 billion entry database here in Symas' labs a month or two ago. "What took you so long?"

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10 March 08 - 08:46Interview with the Chief Architect

ComputerWorldUK just published an interview with me. Anne Rice fans would probably be unimpressed but we may have spilled a little blood here and there. Thanks to Tom Callway for the opportunity to state our message without distortion - he even spelled my name right!

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10 March 08 - 08:45No FOSS There There?

sKatterBrainz blogs that Open Source or Open Sores: The Pain is Often the Same. It's a curious piece on The Blogcast Repository that isn't accepting anonymous comments, and wants its own registration. So I registered even though I have no intention of "learning Microsoft Technogies together" with anyone. Almost as amusing as the guy who was surprised that I might NOT want the Redmond magazine, the voice of Microsoft IT Technology. Sigh.

Bottom line, he chides the many GUI apps (and others) clinging to old-time flat-file configuration files and other ugly and difficult roadblocks to GUI-trained end-users. He also points out that almost nobody really knows about the thriving FOSS (Open Source) support industry that's springing up around the world, like Symas for the OpenLDAP project.

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