[Novalug] Monthly Plea

Bryan J Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org
Wed May 27 23:10:44 EDT 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> The only thing that burns me up is when so many people have never
> heard of 389 and the entire legacy of iPlanet, and say the Linux world
> doesn't have a multi-master solution, and AD was the first.
> That's _exactly_ like saying Internet Explorer was the first web
> browser, and ignoring not only Netscape, but much of the original
> Mosaic team they hired.**
> -- bjs
> **I.e.,  If you're into open source, you should _also_ know Netscape
> hired much of the Michigan LDAP team too.  _Know_ 389's history.  ;)

I meant first, multi-master replicated LDAP solution.

I just realized some will bring up Novell, who actually built their
own, full, X.500 DAP implementation that was far superior to even LDAP
solutions that came later.  But that is another story.  ;)

-- bjs



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