--On Monday, September 25, 2006 9:40 AM -0400 "Cramton, James"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At Brown, we are starting a project to significantly expand our use of
groups in our provisioning infrastructure, and before we go too far down
the road, I'd like to hear what experience is out there to favor one
LDAP server vendor over another. We're currently running SunOne 5.2,
but we feel the need to look before we leap--do any of the major
directory vendors have a noteworthy performance, scalability,
configurability, or other advantage over the others in any particular
situations?
We're obviously reluctant to take on more work than we have to, so the
incentive to switch vendors would need to be very high. But this is the
time to do it, when the schema and application base that uses the
directory is relatively simple. The short list of vendors might include
the 5 listed below, but if "Joe's LDAP Server and Pizza" has a good
product, it would be interesting to hear about that, too.
SunOne
OpenLDAP
Microsoft Active Directory
Novell Directory Service
Oracle Internet Directory
Hi James,
Stanford had a project a few years ago to re-evaluate its directory
service, which at the time was running Netscape DS. Notes on our project
can be found at
<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/history/index.html>.
As you can guess from the URL, we ended up going with OpenLDAP, for a large
variety of reasons, of which performance, scalability, and configurability
were all part. Of additional impact has been our ability to get support
not just for the product, but for being able to extend the product easily
with overlays (like the value sorted attributes overlay and dynamic groups
overlay that Stanford paid for to be added to OpenLDAP). I'd be happy to
discuss everything in further detail with you, if you have more questions.
Regards,
Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
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