Kevin Myer wrote: > If I can piggyback off of this question and ask another: advantages of > using > RedHat Directory Server vs. Fedora Directory Server? > > The only thing I can see we get with RedHat Directory server is > official support > (and at the prices I was quoted per year, for two servers, I could > hire half a > person, although academic pricing wasn't available at the time :) Sure. I was told by the Marketing director that there would be academic pricing for RHDS. For what it's worth, Red Hat marketing has decided to target the whales first - large enterprises and govt. organizations with deep pockets that would find our pricing much more attractive than our competitors in that space. > > The situation I'm in is one where I have an aging directory > infrastructure, > going all the way back to the days when the Directory Server was > branded with > the Netscape brand :) Its been on my TODO list to upgrade to > something, for > the past two years, but I never got around to migrating to OpenLDAP, > for a > number of reasons. With the release of RedHat/Fedora Directory > Server, it was > a matter of installing it, adding a few schema modifications, > exporting data > from the old server, and importing into the new. Simple as pie. I've > been > running with that in a test environment for a month, no problems. And > I'm > ready to plan out a full scale conversion and setup multimaster > replication. > > So am I missing anything obvious, beside official support, for what I > would pay > for Red Hat Directory Server? Official support, upgrades, patches. Easily installable/upgradeable binaries rather than build from source code. If there is a patch for FDS, it is unlikely that the patch will be made readily available as a binary (although we will try). > > Kevin > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3312 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050708/2ef1a1b9/attachment.bin
