27 April 06 - 06:29Tangible Benefirst of IdM

A blog entry on just the "tangible benefits". Not worth quibbling. Nice to see someone thinking this way. Another IAM posting. (more)

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25 April 06 - 22:42Is there more to Identity than Security?

Dave Kearns would like to think so. It's an interesting question.

Is security about security? Is Sarbanes Oxley about security? Or is Identity as much an enabler, a way of opening things up as much as it is a gate? (more)

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25 April 06 - 03:48Sarbanes Oxley

Now, we're not necessarily experts on Sarbanes Oxley. In fact, we'd be the first to note that we haven't read the law, let alone 1% of the articles. But people have come asking if Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) can help.

It can. Like any good directory, CDS (Symas's convenient distributions of OpenLDAP) can help address several of the most pressing IT requirements of Sarbanes Oxley. Read on ... (more)

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20 April 06 - 07:00Good "LDAP Information"

A good day for treasure troves of LDAP info. This collection of links is from a Sun-centric source, so much of it will only be of interest to those unfortunate souls running SunOne Directory Server, Red Hat Directory Services or Fedora Directory Services (the children of the Netscape/Sun iPlanet collaboration). OpenLDAP has diverged from the original U. Mich base they all share in different ways and I doubt they'll do much for the OpenLDAP crowd but you never know. There may be a jewel in there for the faithful (and lucky).

Thanks to WhoAmI for the link. (more)

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20 April 06 - 01:16Blog: cn=Directory Manager

The blog entry Understanding Directory Server DB Growth is a clear explanation. Lots of concise and useful information. It raises some questions about comparison to the current OpenLDAP software (2.3.21 with 2.4 on the horizon). (more)

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17 April 06 - 13:04An Identity Management Rant

Apropos of nothing. I was reading the RSS feeds and ran into an article I simply won't bother linking to. It was a thinly veiled commercial for yet another Identity Management conference and the prose just got to me. Follow the "more" link for the rant, if you care. (more)

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17 April 06 - 12:32Awesome

I sit here in awe. This blog entry pretty much says it all.

Bottom line: "Beware Enterprise IT Architecture." Right answer. It's not a distillation of wisdom, it's an accretion of political flotsam. Just my $0.02 endorsement.

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16 April 06 - 23:43Another Performance Improvement Coming

In the midst of a SLAMD OpenLDAP benchmark, Howard Chu (Chief Architect of Symas) installed a new back-bdb module with a modification of the cache freeing algorithm. We got something between 40 and 50% improvement in LDAP search rate searching on a database way too big for the cache. That's only really important if you've got a big directory and not enough RAM to hold it all in memory.

Just thought you'd want to know what's coming.

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16 April 06 - 03:00CDS versus Fedora Directory Server

Actually, we're being a little opaque in that last major post. We don't really think that sucha a small and simple test proves that, for most real deployments, Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS, Symas's convenient, tested, and certified distribution of OpenLDAP) is twice as fast as Fedora Directory Services (FDS).

It feels good to poke fun using something like that but we're big proponents of quality transparent benchmark data. Our most recent real benchmark of OpenLDAP versus the predecessor to FDS didn't show such enormous performance advantages. But that was then. (more)

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12 April 06 - 07:40Fedora Directory Server slower than OpenLDAP?

Not much of a test, but a user ran a trivial test against OpenLDAP and Fedora Directory Services and had a twelve to one difference (OpenLDAP did in 1 second what it took FDS 12). After indexing a couple of fields, they got to two to one, no comment about whether OpenLDAP was indexed. (more)

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11 April 06 - 02:54HP Ads

Well, HP is beginning to spend the bucks in our name. This IT Manager's Journal ad mentions us down a ways.

It's nice to be billed equally with JBoss, BEA, MySQL, and Oracle. It is a shame they didn't link to us (more)

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08 April 06 - 07:45IBM on LDAP Integration

An IBM Red Book (I remember when a) they were red books and b) they were a new idea) on "Integrating AIX into a Heterogenous LDAP Environment" doesn't mention OpenLDAP!? What rock are they living under? has a nice chapter (Chapter 7) on integrating OpenLDAP.

Teach me to open my mouth before I READ the doc. Thanks to Roger Moquin for calling me out and setting me straight! (more)

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06 April 06 - 11:51"Report: Success Threatens Open Source Ethic"

Fear and Trembling! TechNewsWorld writing about a Forrester Research report "Vendors Refine Their Open Source Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts" goes with "Threatens". I guess it's easier to understand than Subverts ... particularly now that Subversion is the name of an Open Source version control system. The TechNewsWorld article leads with a strong rebuttal from a Red Hat spokesman. We generally agree with Red Hat. (more)

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04 April 06 - 21:37Fanboys Bashing OpenLDAP

Jan-Piet Mens challenged a claim that "the Fedora Directory Server (nee Netscape Directory Server) blows away OpenLDAP for large scale LDAP deployments". He doubts it ... so do we. (more)

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04 April 06 - 21:24HP Open Source Announcement

Another big day for Symas! HP made their availability announcement telling the world about their Open Source Integrated Portfolio and Open Source Midlleware Stacks which feature Symas's distributions of OpenLDAP as one of the featured components. The story got picked up by InternetNews.com who linked back to the article they did after the December announcement.

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