At 5:09 PM -0600 6/3/05, Rich Megginson wrote:
Bacchu, Anjan wrote:
LDAP is seriously needed (and missing) on enterprise infrastructures and
support for Windows(as Firefox showed) will take a product much
further than without windows.
Really? Up until DS 7.0, we supported the DS on Windows for several
years. We found that most people with Windows deployments either
used Active Directory (since they already paid for it), or they were
using Samba on unix/linux. Almost everyone who was downloading and
using the DS on Windows were just doing it for demonstration and/or
evaluation purposes (including the press), because they just wanted
to run it on their x86 desktop or laptop, and in those days that
necessarily meant Windows. But with the growth of Linux, I can
happily run DS 7.1on my RHEL3 desktop or my RHEL4 laptop. Most
people planning serious deployments eventually used Unix for the
production LDAP server, and now many are using Linux.
Having the console available from Windows is a definite plus, and I
certainly used the Windows version frequently for quick proofs of
concept, or for messing with concepts when I didn't have a UNIX test
machine and just needed to test configuration or what have you, so
yes a Windows build would be useful. And given the general
preferability of binary builds for platforms that don't tend to come
with development environments (makes it easy to download and run at a
client's site to show them something that needs to be demonstrated),
it seems to me that a binary build for Windows would be more helpful
than one for MacOS X or Linux, though probably not more useful than
one for Solaris.
-jeff
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