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Re: LDAP vs. SQL



At 08:41 AM 10/11/00 -0700, sj2@myflat.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am designing a web-site for my company. Its will have technical articles,
>mailing lists, web-based mail, newsgroups, FAQs, user profiles etc.
>
>I want to map the entire site structure on a LDAP server and use the LDAP
>server as my information storage backend. My boss says we should go with
>a Relational Database and that a LDAP server is an un-necessary layer.

Maybe your boss has read "LDAP: Use as directed",
from Tim Howes, co-creator of LDAP...
   http://www.data.com/article/DCM20000502S0039 

Kurt