Rahul, This is great! Please post the link to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive Cheers, a On 1/11/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > Free software magazine has a year end report which mentions Fedora > Directory Server. > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/newsletters/event_report_december_2005/index_p2.html > > "Freeing of the directory server software > > It always gives me a warm feeling when proprietary software is freed. > This happened when Red Hat bought Netscape's Directory Server. They > promptly released it as free software. On the second of this month Red > Hat released the next incarnation of the Fedora Directory Server 1.0 > <http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/company/news/prarchive/2005/press_fedora_dir.html>. > This includes many enterprise level features of LDAP, such as version 3 > of the protocol, multi-master replication and Windows synchronisation. > Along with the engine, it includes console and administration utilities; > all of which can be ported from GNU/Linux to other platforms. > > The strategy that Red Hat uses in its Open Directory product is typical. > It first releases the latest and new "bleeding edge" software as free > software to the community through the Fedora project, giving the > community what they want. After it has become more mature, and the > stability is guaranteed, they use it to release their enterprise stable > and static version of the product—still free software—to corporations, > governments and other enterprise customers giving them what they want. > It's a good example of how to make money using free software and the > community business model." > > > -- > Rahul > > Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Check out the new content on Fedora Project page! http://fedoraproject.org -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
