Re: Supported RFC's and "features"

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Clowser, Jeff (Contractor) wrote:
> I'm also looking to feature match the Sun directory server (since that's
> what it would be replacing). I need to know that it either supports a
> given feature Sun supports, or that it doesn't and we have to determine
> how important lack of said function is to us.

That's a fair statement. I'll note that many companies are doing this exact 
same evaluation, it's a well-trodden path. The first several overlays released 
in OpenLDAP 2.3 were commissioned by Hewlett-Packard to provide the features 
they needed to allow their own migration off Sun servers to OpenLDAP. 
Ultimately when someone is sufficiently motivated, whatever is desired will 
get implemented. (HP transitioned their entire internal global IT off of SunDS 
to OpenLDAP a year or so ago. In their case, they specified exactly what 
server/features they wanted, and that's what they got.)
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