28 February 07 - 07:07How Open Is Open
In a stultifyingly repetition of the annual question Nat asks "How Open is Open Source Really"". Always an amusing question. (more)
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27 February 07 - 22:42A Troubling Patent
This posting points to an article and a patent (6,131,120) (link to full text) that seems to have claimed extending directories to "the management and control of enterprise networks". They started with a suit against Micro$oft who will probably do the heavy lifting and get it thrown out. (more)
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26 February 07 - 22:31Linux High Availability & OpenLDAP
q!Bang's blog reposted a nice story about high availability. Nice summary and well linked to quality resources. (more)
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24 February 07 - 08:22OpenDS Management via JConsole
This approach is oddly reminiscent of managing OpenLDAP's dynamic configuration backend with JXplorer, a general purpose LDAP browser. That's how we do a lot of things at Symas (gratuitous plug). (more)
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22 February 07 - 22:35LDAP vs RDBMS (2 of 2)
Trey Drake of Sun (and assumedly of OpenDS) has posted a couple of articles on why LDAP is better than RDBMS systems for directory data. Here is the latest one (and the prior one). Good stuff.
For those who care, OpenLDAP introduced persistent search in its implementation of pull or sync replication (syncrepl) in OpenLDAP 2.2 a couple of years ago. We've considered surfacing it for enterprise use when customers have been curious but none have really pressed for the capability.
Yeah, Pat and Trey, let's keep an eye out for that first real DSML deployment 
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15 February 07 - 22:22A Good Look at 2.4
With characteristic attention to detail and self-confidence, Howard Chu, Chief Architect of OpenLDAP, and Chief Architect of Symas, posted a summary of OpenLDAP 2.4.
The punch line:
I think it goes without saying that no other Directory Server in the world is this fast or this efficient. Couple that with the scalability, manageability, flexibility, and just the sheer know-how behind this software, and nothing else is even remotely comparable.(more)
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15 February 07 - 09:53OpenLDAP 2.4 and CDS
As OpenLDAP 2.4 moves into its second Alpha release, people are starting to ask about Symas's plans to produce versions of Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) that are based on it, and what the effects will be on the current version of CDS, version 3. The short answer is that soon we will begin producing early versions of CDS version 4 that track OpenLDAP 2.4 as it moves from Alpha, to Beta, and into general release status. CDS version 3 will continue to be actively supported and maintained as long as our customers need it. The longer answer is as follows:
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13 February 07 - 22:47Fedora's OpenLDAP (sigh)
Yet another howto and look at the OpenLDAP releases! 2.2! 2.4 is in Alpha and 2.3 has been out forever. Symas offers RPMs that should install 2.3 just as easily and you'll be getting the real thing with the real performance improvements, dynamic config over LDAP, and all the rest of the improvements. (more)
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13 February 07 - 04:04Why LDAP vs Relational(?)
A couple of blog entries from the OpenDS crowd. It's good to see Pat and the gang making progress and we love evangelizing LDAP. No matter who you work for or which LDAP software you're pushing, tell them the story! LDAP is the database that rocks for flexible hierarchic data and for Directories! Symas and OpenLDAP thank all who publicize LDAP.
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13 February 07 - 00:55About Founder-Driven Software Companies
In The Register no less, great article that makes some points that are obvious to us at Symas. Founder driven software companies, like Symas, aren't under pressure from investors, can live up to their own expectations and visions, and can sustain strategies and roadmaps. Symas is in this businesses because we like being in it and because it offers us an opportunity to make a good living doing what we like. And we offer great products at very attractive prices. (more)
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06 February 07 - 22:27OpenLDAP and Fedora
People Just Another Weblog keep asking themselves whether to use OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Services. Kostas makes the good point that Fedora seems to have a pretty small community. That's our perception as well. I hope he's following OpenLDAP's progress because it will become evident pretty fast that one is moving forward and the other is struggling for attention. Symas's CDS distribution of OpenLDAP is easy to drop into Fedora. No reason to fall all the way back to FDS.
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02 February 07 - 11:45The MuMmy Returns
Almost like clockwork, the perennial question of MultiMaster replication rears its head again on the OpenLDAP-Software mailing list. As usual, the topic is raised by people who haven't thought it through, don't understand what they're asking about, and have been misled by the prevailing marketing misinformation that abounds. (more)- OpenLDAP - No comments / No trackbacks - § ¶