Hi, On Wed, 22.08.2007 at 00:58:09 -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to install an LDAP server in my job. I am, obviously, an > OpenBSD guy but my boss wants to install the server with HP-UX. I need > to probe him that OpenBSD is a better solution than HP-UX but google
you still didn't say exactly what LDAP should do in your company, or I have overlooked it. I have only (fading!) experience with older HP-UX on PA-RISC, plus a bunch of other commercial *nix stuff, but can see only corner cases (ok, for me, running SAP could be such a corner case) where using these systems instead of something in the Free Software world might be of advantage. You'd imho be mostly fighting very old software on very old and slow hardware instead of getting any real work done. So, if you want to make an informed decision, you'll have to spec out your usage scenario in much greater detail, and also conduct some experiments, as has already been suggested. > "poor" information about the HP-UX skills doing this role. The price for > the "solution" (HP-UX or OpenBSD) does not matter this time, so the > argument "OpenBSD is OpenSource and the other is a propietary Unix $$" > is not an acceptable argument. Although JCR calls it "FUD", my personal opinion is that HP-UX is quite dead, with today's commercial Unices being AIX or Solaris. The latter imho has the best prospects of surviving, now that IBM is also shipping it. You say that money does not matter at this point, the difference between a "solution" in the six-digit range may be still less preferable to one in the four- or five-digit range (just shooting into the dark here). Best, --Toni++
