Kevin Myer wrote:
If I can piggyback off of this question and ask another: advantages of usingRedHat 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 aperson, 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 payfor 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
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