> From: Smits.Dolf
> Besides that, it is not a real ldapserver, but an ldap
> frontend to the DB2
> database (which you have to buy!) so the free of IBM is
> different to the
> free of IBM.
This is incorrect. The DB2 that comes with IBM's Directory Server is licensed (for free) for use with the Directory Server.
Questions along the line of "but we're an Oracle shop, can't we run IDS with Oracle?" pop up regularly. The response is to treat the DB2 backend like a black box and tune LDAP using IDS parameters.
I might equally say that OpenLDAP is not a real LDAP server, but just a front end to BDB. How many people here tune OpenLDAP by directly modifying the backend database? I wouldn't be surprised to discover that some do, but I suspect not a majority.
PJDM
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