30 May 08 - 00:23Open Source a Threat to Microsoft?

By way of ZDNet coverage of a Ray Ozzie speech. Ray is reported as saying Open Source is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google. We at Symas are shocked and suitably contrite. We don't mean to threaten anyone

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27 May 08 - 07:43Do U Ubuntu?

I was invited to attend the Ubuntu FOSScamp and Developer Summit which just took place in Prague last week. This was a great opportunity to meet with the developers behind Ubuntu Server and explore ideas on multiple fronts. In some ways it was long overdue; the communication channels between Ubuntu and the OpenLDAP community were relatively nonexistent up till now. And as the Debian/OpenSSL story demonstrated, disconnects between distros and their upstreams can be extremely detrimental... (more)

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27 May 08 - 06:48OpenLDAP Performance Revisited

I recently wrote an article on OpenLDAP for Linux-Magazin's Performance and Tuning book, which was just published. You can download the Table of Contents here:

http://www.linux-magazin.de/technical_review/ltr08_performance_und_tuning

The article summarizes some of the tuning work we've done from ~2005 to the current 2.4 release. (Despite the German publisher, I wrote the article in English.)

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20 May 08 - 06:26"Outstanding Questions for LDAP Gurus" -- Reply

On May 13th, James McGovern posted Outstanding Questions for LDAP Gurus on his Enterprise Architecture blog. Mark Wilcox of Oracle replied on the 19th and, in general, we at Symas agree with his basic points. Both Howard Chu (Chief Architect of OpenLDAP and CTO of Symas) and Matthew Hardin (VP Product Engineering of Symas) sent private replies and left it to me to "clean them up." What follows is a predictable knock of Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) based on our research published off our Web Home Page and a few arm waves on our belief in the superiority of OpenLDAP among other things.

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