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A Ham-Handed Slam ...

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:47:00 -0700

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 ...

A Sign of the Times

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:37:00 -0700

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.

Novell's Growing Success with Linux

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:21:00 -0700

Just a nice piece over at cNet about Novell's latest revelations about the state of their business and especially the 31% year on year growth of SuSE Linux revenues. Lots more copies of OpenLDAP. Makes us at Symas happy for them and Linux and its community. Via SlashDot.

Open Source a Threat to Microsoft?

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:23:00 -0700

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

Do U Ubuntu?

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:43:00 -0700

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...

OpenLDAP Performance Revisited

Tue, 27 May 2008 06:48:00 -0700

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.)

"Outstanding Questions for LDAP Gurus" -- Reply

Tue, 20 May 2008 06:26:00 -0700

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.

The COBOLization of LDAP(?)

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:38:00 -0700

On The Virtual Qull, this cute entry on how LDAP is as permanently integrated into the fabric of computer technology as COBOL. Just an FYI.

Musical Chairs

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:57:00 -0700

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.

Thoughts on Openness

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:08:00 -0700

Slashdot ran this entry pointing to an article on Ted Ts'o's blog about an aspect of Sun's approach to "Open Source". The folks at Symas just thought you'd want to think about it.

Managing Password Policies in the Directory

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:50:00 -0700

We've just posted a new Tech Tip on the forum: Managing Password Policies in the Directory

MySQL Conference BOF

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:32:00 -0700

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.

Suretec beat us to it

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:49:00 -0700

Gavin posted Symas OpenLDAP 2.4 Beta Available ... which it is. We're all pretty happy about that here at Symas and the OpenLDAP Project.

More "Explanations" on OpenDS

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:46:00 -0700

No further comment necessary ... this "speaks" for itself.

Jordan thinks they protest too much.