01 July 08 - 04:47A Ham-Handed Slam ...

at our favorite targets: ignorance and sloth. Actually, this is a round of applause for an HP customer of Symas OpenLDAP. After some months of hemming and hawing, this customer has just updated their plans for benchmarking and while not perfect, it is comprehensive enough that they'll quickly learn on their own how to make it better. Benchmarks are learning experiences for all involved. We wish them the best going forward.

If only so many more would take that first step ... (more)

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09 June 08 - 22:37A Sign of the Times

On SlashDot, a story called Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. It's the way Symas thinks the market goes. The evolution of the economics of software development (and the value propositions) seems to make that inevitable. (more)

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30 May 08 - 00:23Open Source a Threat to Microsoft?

By way of ZDNet coverage of a Ray Ozzie speech. Ray is reported as saying Open Source is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google. We at Symas are shocked and suitably contrite. We don't mean to threaten anyone

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27 May 08 - 07:43Do U Ubuntu?

I was invited to attend the Ubuntu FOSScamp and Developer Summit which just took place in Prague last week. This was a great opportunity to meet with the developers behind Ubuntu Server and explore ideas on multiple fronts. In some ways it was long overdue; the communication channels between Ubuntu and the OpenLDAP community were relatively nonexistent up till now. And as the Debian/OpenSSL story demonstrated, disconnects between distros and their upstreams can be extremely detrimental... (more)

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27 May 08 - 06:48OpenLDAP Performance Revisited

I recently wrote an article on OpenLDAP for Linux-Magazin's Performance and Tuning book, which was just published. You can download the Table of Contents here:

http://www.linux-magazin.de/technical_review/ltr08_performance_und_tuning

The article summarizes some of the tuning work we've done from ~2005 to the current 2.4 release. (Despite the German publisher, I wrote the article in English.)

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20 May 08 - 06:26"Outstanding Questions for LDAP Gurus" -- Reply

On May 13th, James McGovern posted Outstanding Questions for LDAP Gurus on his Enterprise Architecture blog. Mark Wilcox of Oracle replied on the 19th and, in general, we at Symas agree with his basic points. Both Howard Chu (Chief Architect of OpenLDAP and CTO of Symas) and Matthew Hardin (VP Product Engineering of Symas) sent private replies and left it to me to "clean them up." What follows is a predictable knock of Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) based on our research published off our Web Home Page and a few arm waves on our belief in the superiority of OpenLDAP among other things.

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28 April 08 - 06:57Musical Chairs

Since the inception of Symas I've been serving as its Chief Technology Officer. Over the last year or so I've been watching Howard Chu's work and interactions with the LDAP community, and it's become evident that he has been carrying out more and more of the responsibilities traditionally carried out by a Chief Technology Officer. (more)

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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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