20 December 06 - 02:59An interesting Telco data point

This post contains interesting teaser information about telephone company (telco) Directory use. It mentions a few tens of millions of entries and characterizes them as easily handled with today's technologies. Interestingly, performance was not raised as an issue in the discussion. Symas believes this is one of the more interesting industries for directory services software, too.

Thanks, Ludo, for the validation information. (more)

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18 December 06 - 10:11Covalent following Symas's Lead(?)

Covalent Technologies got out of the proprietary on top of Open Source business in 2003. Symas did it years earlier. Mark Brewer of Covalent has a nice interview up on IT Conversations. He talks about being a "Production Support" company, supporting production use and being somewhat conservative. "They come to us ..." ... "over 90% renewal rate" ... good stuff. (more)

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13 December 06 - 15:01The End of Fedora?

Not sure how to read this.

The end of Fedora? What about the projects?

Updated. See Gavin's comment. I apparently missed the point.

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13 December 06 - 03:14Contacts Database

Simon Rycroft says "I am not the only person who feels that OpenLDAP (or Fedora Directory Server) is a little too much for a simple contacts server" on his blog, pointing to AdamW's blog entry titled "Contacts Server". The money quote, "A bit of basic Googling suggests I could probably do this via OpenLDAP, but it looks like using a nuclear bomb to crack a nut." Wow, where do these people get this stuff?

LDAP was invented for contacts servers (among other things). You're not likely to find anything as easy to use out of the box for a contacts server or as powerful to support your evolving needs. Sure, there's an LDAP learning curve. That will be the same for pretty much any LDAP software.

And OpenLDAP can be trivial to install and get running. Take a look at Symas's Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS), binary distributions of OpenLDAP for most platforms. (more)

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