RE: Production use of OpenLDAP

["Soop, Christoffer" <christoffer.soop@framfab.se>]

Well... I was hoping to find a reference case in the size of the CNN/Novell
deal (http://www.novell.com/lead_stories/1999/dec14/index.html).  

In this case the application initially has to handle 10 000 concurrent users
out of a total 400 000 


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org]
>Sent: den 6 januari 2000 18:17
>To: Soop, Christoffer
>Cc: 'openldap-general@openldap.org'
>Subject: Re: Production use of OpenLDAP
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 06:11:55PM +0100, Soop, Christoffer wrote:
>> Does anybody know of any large, high profile installations 
>of OpenLDAP in
>> production use?  The likes of Hotmail and so on...  I need 
>this information
>> in order to persuade a customer to use OpenLDAP.
>> 
>> /Christoffer Soop
>
>I don't know about commercial production systems (atleast not 
>until later
>this month :), but Debian (www.debian.org) uses openldap for 
>it's central
>Developer database, and soon we will be using it for our core archive
>directory (db.debian.org).
>
>Right now it supports user entries for ~500 developers, 
>including account
>info, PGP and SSH RSA keys. The archive directory will contain entries
>for some 4000 seperate software packages from some 3000 
>seperate sources,
>with seperate entries for each version and each architecture 
>supported (in
>the range of 8 entries for each package right now). 
>Implentation via the
>software update tools will be forthcoming to obtain dynamic 
>filtered sets
>of packages based on things like key words and stability markers.
>
>Ben
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