On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:38 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> "William (Bill) E. T." <wtriest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > One of our strategic goals for this year is to switch from
> > NIS to LDAP (which hasn't happened so far due to some
> ancient
> > Unix boxes). Which should I investigate first OpenLDAP or
> FDS?
> > Can some one point me to pro's and cons? (links very much
> > appreciated)
>
> FDS is NsDS, which has been a _long_time_ and is well
> trusted. It's synchronization with ADS is much, much better,
> and removes the need to deal with a set of "glue together"
> services just to get such. The included certificate server
> is a nice touch, although being truly open, you can still use
> Kerberos and other authentication systems as well.
>
> But probably the biggest boost to why NsDS is more viable for
> most enterprises than OpenLDAP is Red Hat's license of it.
> Red Hat really tried to make OpenLDAP work in its enterprise
> services model, but in the end, it was well worth their
> bother to pay $20M to open source NsDS. Red Hat is behind it
> 100%, and that includes charging $15,000/server for what is
> free in the same FDS you can download.
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OK - I'm intrigued...I just signed up for their mail list to see what
the questions/problems are.
Craig
