[Info-vax] LDAP

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/13/2020 5:12 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-10-13 kl. 22:35, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>> Apropos of nothing else here, an OpenLDAP V2.4.53 kit for OpenVMS just 
>> became available from VSI.
> 
> He, I was just reading the mail from VSI. What is not clear to me, is if
> this OpenLDAP thing is new to VMS or if it has always been OpenLDAP that
> was available for VMS and this is just an update to a later version.

I believe OpenLDAP 2.4.47 was released in February/March. Is this a
newer version?

> If OpenLDAP is new to VMS, does this bring something new "to the table"?
> What are the pros/cons with OpenLDAP compared with the previous solutions?

OpenLDAP is rather widely used and available for almost
all platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, *BSD, AIX, HP-UX,
Solaris, z/OS - and also VMS).

Unless one is a Microsoft shop, then OpenLDAP is a
common choice.

Arne