Moving Outlook/vCards to an LDAP Address Book?

T-Suit asks: "I'm looking for a way to move 1000+ vCards (the result of painful consolidation after going through our sales' team personal Outlook contacts) into OpenLDAP, so that we can access them from all plaftorms. I've looked at Dawn, but its LDIF export is too crufty for ldapadd and it doesn't solve the issue of how to update those records easily, so I'd also need some kind of 'master GU' to edit them remotely. Along the way, I must say I am amazed at the lack of good LDAP-only contact manager apps for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Besides Evolution (which behaves strangely for me and doesn't show all the fields Outlook entries have), all 'nice' 'shared address book' tools I see are limited, web-based or rely on a SQL database. LDAP Management apps (such as diradmin) allow me to edit all fields, but are not for casual users (or available on Windows). Any suggestions on how to both import and maintain this data?"

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Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Place a Rolodex in a central location. Perhaps by the coffee machine.

Outsource it to India

[Glonoinha]

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Of course then we have your entire contact database which we can either use for our own personal profits (legal or otherwise) or maybe we just sell it to all your competitors for a nice tidy profit. Then you will be fuxored pretty bad, but hey - at least it only cost you $10.