LDAP Series Part II - Netscape Directory Server

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 1, 2006 9:06 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Tom Adelstein
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Two years ago today, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik confirmed the purhase of two prized enterprise products from AOL - Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management System. He also noted than Red Hat intended to open source the products within 12 months.Red Hat paid $25 million for the assets. You could say that was pretty good considering that in 1998, AOL paid more than $4 billion for Netscape. Matthew's purchase represented the last divestiture of Netscape's assets by AOL.If you wander on over tothe Fedora Directory Server (FDS) site you can take a look at an enhanced version of the Netscape Directory Server.

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