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Oh by the way, we've moved...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:06:00 -0700

I was heading out to lunch with Phil Kizer here at the LISA'08 Conference in San Diego, and he mentioned that he hadn't seen any updates on our Connexitor blog recently.

Long story short - we've moved to blogging on www.symas.com instead. I guess we should have left a Change Of Address here a lot sooner, but better late than never. So for those others of you wonder, no we haven't intentionally gone silent. See you on the new blog...

Ironic Juxtaposition

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:52:00 -0700

Two articles within a day of each other on InternetNews.com ... Open Source Users Unhappy with Paid Support and Sun Takes a Shine to Linux in New Web Stack tickled the Symas fancy.. The title of the first is a bit hyperbolic as the article body doesn't actually say they are unhappy with paying for support ... some are unhappy with the support they're getting from the folks they are paying which is something of a different message. And Sun's program is as much about support of Apache, MySQL, and PhP on Solaris as it is on Linux but I guess the Linux part is news to someone ... of course MySQL is Sun, isn't it?

The King is Dead, Long Live the King

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:27:00 -0700

back-bdb, the original OpenLDAP database developed specifically for the (now Oracle) Berkeley Database (BDB) has been a work-horse for many years. It solved a lot of the problems inherent to the back-ldbm database design that OpenLDAP inherited from the original UMich code. Years ago, Howard Chu, Chief Architect of OpenLDAP (and CTO of Symas Corporation) designed back-hdb a different and better implementation of a database for OpenLDAP using BDB. Both have been supported through the years, and the question of dropping back-bdb came up from time to time. Since there was no compelling reason, no decision to drop back-bdb was made. But now a reason has appeared.

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.)

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.

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

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.