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Re: RedHat dropping OpenLDAP server support

On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 21:26 +0100, Howard Chu wrote:
> RedHat is supporting their commercial server, RedHat Directory
> Server. It's 
> the commercial version of 389DS, derived from the old Netscape LDAP
> server. 
> Worth noting that that lineage of code has been abandoned by everyone
> else 
> (e.g. Sun/Oracle DSEE has also been EOL'd).
> 

I tried to use 389DS for a Hackathon and I had to switch to OpenLDAP
because I couldn't rely on it to start when I told it to.

I wouldn't be surprised that I hear a story in 5 years that RedHat
Directory Service was going to ported to OpenLDAP.