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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10 March 08 - 03:20The Myth of IT Skills Shortage

A little off our usual Symas and OpenLDAP path but related. As SlashDotted this morning, we found the article Is there Really an IT labor shortage? in Baselilne Magazine quite important and well written.

We agree with the article's premise. There's no shortage. But given enough time, management will create one. (more)

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06 March 08 - 00:13"Microsoft's Directory Team Forced to Reconsider Ignored Standards"

Oasis publishes the "Cover Pages: XML Daily News Digest" which recently (by some definition) contained a story with the same title as this entry. Because Cover Pages is an Oasis XML mouthpiece, the emphasis is on SAML, an Oasis standards product. The article is amusing to Symas because the quote from the Microsoft representative makes no such admission that the company's Active Directory (AD) technology needs to be updated to become compliant with the IETF's LDAPv3 standards. We consider it slightly more important to become compliant to a standard they've claimed to be compliant to than to add more standards to the list. For our comparison of AD technology to LDAP products (particularly OpenLDAP, see our white paper on the subject.

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