LDAP is very fast at retrieving data, not so foat at updating data. As a rule, any user information that isn't updated often and isn't stateful (e.g. number of logins, where you're updating every time a user logs in) is fair game.
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From: "Patrick K. O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tlilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Webware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [Webware-discuss] LDAP Anyone?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:55:02 -0600
Cool. Could you comment on the appropriateness of LDAP for things like a
sales & marketing application? I'm wondering how far LDAP can be extended
beyond the internal contact list. Does it really make sense to use LDAP to
keep track of external contacts for more than just an email address? Or
would it be better to keep that contact information in some other storage,
like a MySQL database?
