--On Friday, November 16, 2007 1:13 PM -0800 Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:
That's a fair statement. I'll note that many companies are doing this exact same evaluation, it's a well-trodden path. The first several overlays released in OpenLDAP 2.3 were commissioned by Hewlett-Packard to provide the features they needed to allow their own migration off Sun servers to OpenLDAP. Ultimately when someone is sufficiently motivated, whatever is desired will get implemented. (HP transitioned their entire internal global IT off of SunDS to OpenLDAP a year or so ago. In their case, they specified exactly what server/features they wanted, and that's what they got.)
Stanford University did something similar when transitioning from NetscapeDS (a close relative to SunOne) back when OpenLDAP 2.1 was first coming out, and also commissioned a bit of work from Symas to help with that transition as well.
--Quanah
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