From: Marc Balmer (marcmsys.ch)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 02:11:46 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

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.

We run an OpenLDAP installation on OpenBSD that is fully synchronized on
two servers (one master, one slave) for the public schools here.
~15'000 accounts and all important systems (email, fileserver, even the
~80 firewalls, login, etc.) pull their data from it.

It is in operation for several years now, not a single problem with it.

I can say nothing about HP-UX, but OpenBSD surely is a stable foundation
for an OpenLDAP server.

- Marc Balmer, micro systems

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]