Jimi Thompson wrote:
>
> Novell's NDS has been LDAP compliant since 5.x. I would suggest taking a long hard
> look at Novell 6, which should be out very, very soon.
Actually, since Novell's eDirectory is platform independant and runs on
Netware, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, NT, Win2K, you should look at eDir, not
just at Netware 6.
I laughed at the comment below about how good iPlanet/netscapes
replication is. Nothing personal, but that is not REAL replication.
Look at how NDS does partitioning/replication to understand what it
really could be like!! At the moment, NDS's replication/partitioning
scheme is beyond anything out there at all!
> Mark Wilcox wrote:
>
> > I don't have any official numbers or anything to give you but I've looked at a
> > number of products & talked to a lot of people & vendors (when you write a book
> > on LDAP, you meet lots of people ;).
> >
> > Of course it depends on what is your primary criteria for a server. (First full
> > disclosure I occasionally write articles for Netscape & I am the Netscape LDAP
> > developer champion).
> >
> > Netscape Directory Server is arguably the most widely deployed pure LDAP server.
> > It's also the fastest and most feature rich of the LDAP servers on the market.
> > It's also incredibly stable and it's replication features make it extremely
> > scalable (I have friends who routinely synch up a directory server on a ship at
> > sea with a directory server in the middle of Texas). It also supports a server
> > API allowing you to extend the DS server if you need to. If you're looking for
> > just a pure LDAP server, Netscape DS is my favorite. Also all of Netscape's (um,
> > I mean iPlanet's) server products tie neatly into DS.
> >
> > If you're looking for an opensource then openLDAP (www.openldap.org) is the only
> > game in town. It has a lot of fans and it now ships with Red Hat 6.1 Linux (at
> > least that was the last I heard, haven't seen 6.1 yet to confirm). Unfortunately
> > until version 2 ships (and I don't know when that will be), it only supports
> > LDAP v2 & doesn't really support SSL/TLS for security (though people have added
> > support via one of the SSL wrappers like stunnel).
> >
> > MessagingDirect has some neat LDAP products including full support for X.500 and
> > also the first out with a CLDAP server, which supports LDAP via UDP instead of
> > TCP. I've never used any of MD's products, but I'm good friends with one of
> > their developers & he's been extremely knowledgeable on X.500/LDAP.
> >
> > If you have a large installed base of Novell NDS users, you may want to
> > investigate NDS 8 which is an LDAP v3 server. Again I haven't used NDS 8 (yet,
> > we're a large novell shop at UNT, but I'm not a Novell guy so I haven't seen it
> > yet), but I've heard many good things about it.
> >
> > There's also other LDAP products out there but what I've listed is my current
> > favorite products.
> >
> > You may also want to look into one of the meta-directory solutions such as
> > Netscape's or Oblix's which enable you to access legacy data via LDAP without a
> > lot of data migration.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > "Still@work" wrote:
> >
> > > I have been asked to look around at the LDAP products being offered.
> > > From this I am to compile a list of servers that exist and make comparisons
> > > and to make recommendations from this.
> > >
> > > I have been searching over the net, but the information on comparing servers
> > > is somewhat thin.
> > > Without having to build several dev machines and testing each server
> > > software I can get my hands on,
> > > have any of you had to do such a task and mind sharing findings ?
> > >
> > > Cheeky I know, but worth a go ! :-)
> > >
> > > Kind Regards
> > >
> > > Graham.
