07 January 08 - 08:03Uncle!
In early 2007
we stopped releasing
CDS Silver (the unsupported free version of CDS) concurrently with
CDS Gold (the subscription version) and we were thinking about dropping the Silver packages entirely. Due to popular demand and to ensure that both
Symas and the
OpenLDAP Project always put our best foot forward, we've decided not only to keep the Silver packages but to enhance them by adding new capabilities that were previously available only in the Gold packages.
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16 July 07 - 01:59Open Source Conference: Portland
Thanks to our partner HP, Symas will be at the Open Source Conference this year. Look for us in the Exhibit Hall Wednesday 25 July and Thursday the 26th. Not sure who of us will be there but we will be well represented!
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11 April 07 - 18:12Size and How You Use It
Saw a few other things that bugged me, so time to get them off my chest. Our pal Ludovic at Sun wrote in his blog a few months ago Is this the biggest directory? and of course the answer is No. Likewise the Fedora Directory project home page brags about running "many of the largest directories in the world."
Let's set the record straight - the largest and fastest directories in the world today (and for the past couple years) run on Intel Itanium servers, and they run on CDS, Symas' build of OpenLDAP.
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05 April 07 - 00:10OpenLDAP as Content Database?
Howard and I spend a pleasant few hours with Six Apart, the developers of movabletype (mt) blogging platform and the typepad, live journal and vox blogging services. They have LDAP enabled their software and wanted Howard Chu, Symas's and OpenLDAP's resident genius (Chief Architect) to review what they'd done and make suggestions.
Jordan and I went along for big picture stuff (and lunch).
Generally, they've done a nice job on the LDAP support and we had a grand time.
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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.
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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!.
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15 February 07 - 09:53OpenLDAP 2.4 and CDS
As OpenLDAP 2.4 moves into its second Alpha release, people are starting to ask about Symas's plans to produce versions of Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) that are based on it, and what the effects will be on the current version of CDS, version 3. The short answer is that soon we will begin producing early versions of CDS version 4 that track OpenLDAP 2.4 as it moves from Alpha, to Beta, and into general release status. CDS version 3 will continue to be actively supported and maintained as long as our customers need it. The longer answer is as follows:
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21 January 07 - 00:20A CDS Blog Entry
This blog entry is the first reference to Connexitor™ Directory Servces (CDS) I've seen in the wild by a happy user. They're happy because we went out and worked with them (for money) and helped them set up CDS for their good-sized directory. They're having us teach LDAP University there, as well.
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Linkdump
30 05 08 03:21Novell's Growing Success with Linux
Just a nice piece over at cNet about Novell's latest revelations about the state of their business and especially the 31% year on year growth of SuSE Linux revenues. Lots more copies of OpenLDAP. Makes us at Symas happy for them and Linux and its community. Via SlashDot.
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10 05 08 04:38The COBOLization of LDAP(?)
On The Virtual Qull, this cute entry on how LDAP is as permanently integrated into the fabric of computer technology as COBOL. Just an FYI.
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25 04 08 03:08Thoughts on Openness
Slashdot ran this entry pointing to an article on Ted Ts'o's blog about an aspect of Sun's approach to "Open Source". The folks at Symas just thought you'd want to think about it.
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20 04 08 04:50Managing Password Policies in the Directory
We've just posted a new Tech Tip on the forum:
Managing Password Policies in the Directory
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10 03 08 08:49Suretec beat us to it
Gavin posted Symas OpenLDAP 2.4 Beta Available ... which it is. We're all pretty happy about that here at Symas and the OpenLDAP Project.
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03 12 07 02:46More "Explanations" on OpenDS
No further comment necessary 
... this "speaks" for itself.
Jordan thinks they protest too much.
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