On Saturday, May 14, 2011 01:28 AM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > > On May 12, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> On Friday, May 13, 2011 04:07 AM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Wondering if any of you have thoughts/experiences with ApacheDS? >>> >>> We've all had trials and tribulations regarding OpenLDAP and while >>> its >>> basically working pretty well in a master/slave relationship, >>> ApacheDS >>> claims more robust replication, etc... >>> >>> Granted I am working with the version bundled with CentOS, I do >>> understand that the latest OpenLDAP is wayyyyyyy betterrrr :) >> >> Since you are shopping, I wonder if you have looked at opends? > > No, but after reading your post I checked it. > > Looks cool, Java based which seems the in thing, I like it. > > But, and not to sound lamerz; the Sun sponsor turned me off. > > At this stage in my career and life. I look at these feeble attempts > by large virus like organizations to say "hey look world, we encourage > free and open... " like Microsoft making a big deal about donating > $100K to the Apache Foundation. > /me shrugs opends branched away from Sun DS a long time ago and I doubt very much that it is still 'Sun sponsored'. More like the developers have not bother to update the site. I use it for my winbind backend and its management was way more easier than trying to figure out openldap. Of course, I will probably be using Samba's DS with samba4 in future.