Re: Supported RFC's and "features"

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, November 16, 2007 1:13 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> 
wrote:


> 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.)

Stanford University did something similar when transitioning from 
NetscapeDS (a close relative to SunOne) back when OpenLDAP 2.1 was first 
coming out, and also commissioned a bit of work from Symas to help with 
that transition as well.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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