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@redhat.com Sent: Jun 1, 2005 11:52 AM To: fedora-directory-announce@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%2...
Fedora Directory Server Now Available to the Open Source Community http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/Home/Company/News%2Band%2BEvents/Red%2BHat%2...
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
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org
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