[CentOS] Fw: [Fedora-directory-announce] Fedora Directory Server news!

Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>

thebs413 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 1 20:44:03 UTC 2005


For those of you who have been following Red Hat's purchase of
Netscape Directory Server from AOL last fall (and possibly have been
playing with the "technology preview release" from RHN from earlier
this year), Red Hat has made good on GPL'ing it (which they were
entitled to as of April 30, 2005 per their contract with AOL).

To me, this is probably the most exciting announcement in the
Linux world in the last 5 years.  I've been deploying Netscape
Directory Server since the late '90s, and have always found
OpenLDAP to be lacking in comparison as a whole.

"The Fedora Directory Server is a world-class Directory Server implementation.
Some of the more interesting features that are included are:
    * 4-Way Multi-Master Replication
    * Scalability: thousands of operations per second, tens of thousands
    of concurrent users, tens of millions of entries, hundreds of gigabytes of
    data
    * SSL and SASL for secure authentication and transport
    * Support for most LDAPv3 features, including many common controls and extensions
    * Schema update over LDAP"

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Bob Lord <blord at redhat.com>
Sent: Jun 1, 2005 11:52 AM
To: fedora-directory-announce at redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-directory-announce] Fedora Directory Server news!

I'm proud to announce that the Red Hat Directory Server product, and the 
Fedora Directory Server open source project have launched!

Here are the press releases:

    Red Hat Announces Directory Server
    http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/Home/Company/News%2Band%2BEvents/Red%2BHat%2BPress%2BRelease%2BArchive/2005/Red%2BHat%2BAnnounces%2BDirectory%2BServer.html

    Fedora Directory Server Now Available to the Open Source Community
    http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/Home/Company/News%2Band%2BEvents/Red%2BHat%2BPress%2BRelease%2BArchive/2005/Fedora%2BDirectory%2BServer%2BNow%2BAvailable%2Bto%2Bthe%2BOpen%2BSource%2BCommunity.html

The main page for the open source project is here: 
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
 From there, you'll find links to mailing lists, IRC channels, and a 
wealth of information about the project.

We invite you to get involved!

-Bob




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Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org
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