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Re: Alternative to OpenLDAP
Not to be rude, but your comparison
doesn't state much about NDS - version release of eDirectory you examined....
Did you truly evaluate the Novell offerings,
or did you just fill in the checklist?
When was this comparison done?????
Thanks......
Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108
owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org wrote on 10/02/2003
06:51:18 PM:
>
>
> --On Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:48 PM -0400 "Yelich, Scott
D."
> <syelich@commerzbank-usa.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone ...
> >
> > This might be off topic - but does anyone have any recommendations
for a
> > replacement/alternative for OpenLDAP that would provide a central
> > *password* repository and preferably integrate into AD? Supported
clients
> > need to include most common OSes such as Solaris, Tru64, HP/UX,
AIX,
> > Redhat/Linux, OSX, etc.
> >
> > Specifically, a commercial product? I'm mostly looking
for someone who
> > has considerable knowledge of such product and could give a word
or two
> > why the product is a preferred alternative. I can search
the net and
> > read glossy sales documents or paid "reviews" ... but
I'm interested in
> > real world experiences.
> >
> > I keep hearing and seeing that everyone and their grandmother
has
> > LDAP/SSO working and I'm just wondering what people are using
*other*
> > than OpenLDAP (as this no longer appears a viable solution).
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason that OpenLDAP
does not
> suit your needs? Here at Stanford, we ran Netscape/iPlant/Sun
for quite
> some time, and had enough issues with it over time that we decided
to
> re-evaluate our platform of choice. At that time, we evaluated
the current
> offerings from quite a few major providers (See
> <http://www.stanford.edu/~chandau/wip/compare.html>). I've
also talked
> with a number of people at other universities who are looking at moving
> from their current product lines to OpenLDAP. Our experience
with OpenLDAP
> as a directory server has been extremely positive so far -- It meets
our
> current needs, and the continued growth and implementation of new
features
> gives us opportunities to expand that we are looking forward to using.
We
> also looked at SunOne/iPlanet a few months ago when we were looking
at
> Portal projects for the unversity. At that time, I again had
a change to
> evaluate SunOne as a directory service. I still find it cumbersome
to use,
> interface wise, and less than straight forward to operate. Something
that
> has been extremely useful for us with OpenLDAP is our ability to easily
> upgrade across product releases and the ability to look at and review
the
> source if necessary. We already have 2.2 servers in our development
> environment up, so that when it is released, we can migrate with little
> pain.
>
> Anyhow, our experience with iPlanet/SunOne was not productive. We
do
> currently use AD in limited scope for our windows systems, and will
> continue to do so, but the AD servers are fed from our OpenLDAP servers.
> We have one department using SunOne for now, but they too feed from
our
> OpenLDAP servers, and with the syncRepl functionality in OpenLDAP
2.2, we
> will be moving them to OpenLDAP as well.
>
> --Quanah
>
>
> --
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
> Stanford University
> GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html