> Looking to pick your collective brains. > At work we're looking into deploying an ldap server and I've been tasked > with working out the pros and cons of Sun ldap server vs, openldap. > So far, the major problems I've heard about (no data to back these up) is > that with openldap some of the upgrades can break previously existing schemas,
Across *MAJOR* version changes, so this is only true if you are upgrading from a *VERY* old version to a current version. I've never met a package where you didn't have to remmediate something when jumping major versions. > and that if it crashes youc an lose data, Of course you can, but you almost certainly won't if you set it up correctly and are using a fairly recent version. (No package can guarantee you that you will *NEVER* loose data when something goes wrong). We've been running OpenLDAP for ages (since the 1.2.x versions) and the only time we have really lost data was when someone schmucked it up. > although I seem to remember hearing that > openldap recently went to totally atomic transactions? I think they've had them for a long time. > In short, what I'm looking for is a comparison of the two offerings. I have > googles, > but come up enmpty so far. Would anyone here have any suggestions where I > might look? The real advantage to Sun's DS server is better documentation. And I've not verified that personally. :) There is documentation for OpenLDAP but you'll find most of it in the FAQ-O-Matic but it is sometimes a little confusing to piece things together. I'd be willing to bet money that OpenLDAP is way faster than Sun's DS. OpenLDAP is faster than just about anything. --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
