26 March 07 - 23:57"What's really holding back FOSS adoption?"

This IPCentral blog entry is an interesting take on the question of what's holding back free and Open Source Software (FOSS or OSS, you're choice). After attending a private customer council with some of the very big enterprises last week, I'd say this blog entry is at least half on the mark though not wrong headed. (more)

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22 March 07 - 04:50Why eDirectory?

This MediaWicki setup stuff should show the way to use Symas's Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) distribution of OpenLDAP to do authentication for MediaWicki. (more)

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19 March 07 - 23:42Good Article on "Why Open Source"

Infoworld ran a nice column on many of the compelling reasons to convert to Open Source Software. Symas thinks that many of these reasons will convince Enterprise IT shops to increasingly use Open Source Software and organizations that really know how to support it in the years to come. (more)

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08 March 07 - 04:00Benchmark: HP Blade Systems and CDS

HP ran a very comprehensive benchmark (PDF) of Symas's Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) distribution of OpenLDAP. Great Job!. (more)

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06 March 07 - 23:55IBM Dev. Works on OpenLDAP Authentication

This article was pointed to by this brief posting in my RSS river this morning. It's a restatement of the basics. Nice to see IBM saying something nice about OpenLDAP. It's a shame they're falling into the trap of using the old, out of date, OpenLDAP software Red Hat keeps shipping with their distros.

Symas offers updated versions of both OpenLDAP (in CDS and of the nss_ldap and pam_ldap libraries mentioned (in our CNS product, see the Web site). Wouldn't you rather be on software that's up to date? (more)

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05 March 07 - 13:22Sun 6.0: Multi Master Thoughts

Neil Wilson on Sun's new 6.0 release. Clever title. Thought-provoking piece. I'll let the smart ones in the group play with the potential flaws in this logic. (more)

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