Hi, On 4/5/07, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(3) coming up with new ideas on how to increase Directory product uptake
don't know if I was just to blind to find it but a really good thing would be to have apacheds with a schema for open-xchange (OX). This way is not direct marketing but there would be a company with a large user base (it seems OX is the most widespread groupware when looking at google results) Ok this is not exactly an issue for the apacheds dev to do _but_: * I'm evaluating this option right now myself :) * embedding apacheds in OX would have a lot of peoples attention imho, when looking at the forums you get tons of references to people having problems with the ldap setup there. * admittedly I have no idea about the code quality of OX since I just started evaluating it, but from a users point of view it seems to be the most feature complete anyway I'm absolutely unexperienced with marketing and such stuff. My point of view is that if I have the choice and won't find an easy way to have the schema available I'll probably stick with openLDAP. It's not always about features but also about ease of use. I just started looking a bit deeper into LDAP and don't have enough knowledge so this may be a stupid idea or very well already possible but with openLDAP being very wide spread I think there should even be some way tool that you feed an scheme that is available for openLDAP and get a scheme that is usable for apacheDS (the more general approach would which would maybe make even more sense, possibly even something generic so that you can create apacheDS schemas from an arbitrary source with it) I guess I got a little OT here but I hope my point is clear, which would be make it as easy as possible for users to switch to apacheDS. And another important thing is please do promote LDAPStudio it's imho a really great tool. I used JXplorer before and it just doesn't do any more now that I worked a bit with LDAPStudio. oh and make the installer work for OSX :). currently it doesn't offer not to install /etc/init.d/apacheds which makes it quite useless (subjective) since * you can't do non-root installs for evaluation purposes * OSX has a totally different approach of starting things (http://launchd.macosforge.org/) -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3KDAGCL2NKOIM/ref=reg_hu-wl_goto-registry/302-4432803-5146435?ie=UTF8&sort=date-added
