Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:
Hi folks,
I need to install an LDAP server in my job. I am, obviously, an
OpenBSD guy but my boss wants to install the server with HP-UX. I need
to probe him that OpenBSD is a better solution than HP-UX but google
doesn't show a truly comparative between this two OS and there is a
"poor" information about the HP-UX skills doing this role. The price
for the "solution" (HP-UX or OpenBSD) does not matter this time, so
the argument "OpenBSD is OpenSource and the other is a propietary Unix
$$" is not an acceptable argument.
Anyone have experience with this two OS?? Is there any heavy
reason (argument) to choose one over the other? Remember: it is an
LDAP server...not a database server....not a webserver.....not a file
server.
tried to take a bit of a side adventure and get HP-UX going on a PA-RISC
machine and it's no walk in the park. for cost, support, compatibility
and simplicity reasons i've abandoned the project and decided to use
other OSes instead.
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making even small donations is considerable and, in my experience,
better than any phone or tech support i've received from companies that
support "enterprise" software. for a fraction of the cost of a support
contract you can get direct access to the programmers and cut out the
nimwits on the phone you have to wade through.
as jc said, the only situation i can imagine where you'd want to run
something "enterprise" is in the case that you need a monolithic server.
unless the hardware is wacky, i'd still be inclined to run an opensource
OS on it for the support reasons cited above. not very familiar with
LDAP configs here but i imagine there is a way to spread load between
machines, making the monolithic solution pointless.
thanks for the reminder to investigate LDAP more closely... =)
Thanks in advanced,
