The OpenLDAP Foundation announces the appointment of Howard Chu of Symas Corp. as Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project, a position previously held by Kurt Zeilenga of IBM. Kurt will continue to serve the OpenLDAP community as Executive Director of the OpenLDAP Foundation, and as an advisor to the OpenLDAP Core Team.

About Howard Chu

Howard joined the OpenLDAP Core Team in 1999 and has worked steadily at enhancing the software since then. Drawing on his years of experience designing and deploying networking and security solutions, and supported by his colleagues at Symas, Howard has been instrumental in making OpenLDAP Software what it is today.

-- OpenLDAP Foundation