30 January 07 - 23:32Howard Chu is OpenLDAP Chief Architect

This has been in the works over at OpenLDAP for a few weeks. Howard announced it on his Highland Sun blog last night. Howard is Chief Architect, VP R&D, and a Founder at Symas Corporation and Music Director at Highland Sun in his copious spare time.

Congratulations, Howard.

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26 January 07 - 15:02LDAP for Good or Bad

LDAP's pervasiveness continues to increase. It's being used more and more, and talked about more and more. But frequently it's being talked about mainly because it's being misused, by people who don't know any better, and the use of LDAP becomes a problem instead of a solution. LDAP usage in Sendmail is a prime example of this problem.

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21 January 07 - 00:20A CDS Blog Entry

This blog entry is the first reference to Connexitor™ Directory Servces (CDS) I've seen in the wild by a happy user. They're happy because we went out and worked with them (for money) and helped them set up CDS for their good-sized directory. They're having us teach LDAP University there, as well. (more)

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16 January 07 - 00:03The EU take on Open Source

Well, the Open Sources blog over on InfoWorld had two hits this morning. Thanks to Tom Maguire for pointing to the first that pointed to that last entry.

The EU commissioned a typical overheavy-weight EU report on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS in their world). It's a must read. (more)

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15 January 07 - 23:44MuleSource: Fellow Travelers?

Take a look at this blog entry. It describes Symas's business model pretty well. Over-support the OpenLDAP user community, even when they aren't paying customers. (more)

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11 January 07 - 04:20OpenLDAP is "Growing"

It was good to see that OpenLDAP is considered "growing" (see this article). We at Symas would like to believe so. So would HP.

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