On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:51:02 +0300 Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> K. F. Yim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > We encounter the same problem on OpenLDAP and are also planning to use > > iPlanet > > Directory Server and we got information from our local Sun sale > > representitives that > > we can only use 10k user license for any Sparc machine purchased. > > > > Could you please confirm this. (200k entries on each machine > > purchased) > > > > Hi, > It is not 200k different entries on each machine, it is 200k entries > total in the directory as long as all replicas are also sparc machines > running solaris 8. The same license does not apply for solaris 9, afaik. > > http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/package.html > > Look at the section for solaris 8. Sun has consistently updated the > version number in the license every time a new version of the directory > server has appeared. There is no good reason to not use solaris 8 and > directory 5.1 if you have available sparc hardware. > Just for the record: Iplanet is not all that well, we're just moving away from it: replica gets out of sync for no apparent reason, response times not al that great, pricing for licenses for more then 200k entries are ridiculous, and of course you need support on the hardware and Solaris itself, and support on the ldap server (not the license cost). Your problems with openldap might be more related to the version of db3 you're using. It might be much wiser to just ask this on the openldap list or check your db3 version, or upgrade to openldap 2.0.25 (last stable), or even 2.1 (using db4). I for one am using 2.0.23 for months on a reasonable high usage system, with >100k entries in it, without any problems at all. Franky
