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Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products

Posted by michael on from the fire-sale dept.

KrisWithAK writes "According to a press release, Red Hat is acquiring parts of the Netscape Enterprise Suite including the directory server and certificate management system. I am definitely looking forward to more open source competition with OpenLDAP!"

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  1. Re:are they gonna open source it? by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everything Red Hat has, does, or buys becomes open source. This is equally true for their patents (which are aquired for defensive reasons). Here is their patent policy. In short, it states that any patents they hold may be used by any free software project without fear of any infringement.
    Regards,
    Steve

  2. Re:That's still around? by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you've ever had to use openLDAP then you will never be happier once RH releases this. The features are limitless, but two things off the top of my head are that it has a significant improvement as far as speed and system resources go, and also it has good, advanced replication. It's easy to use and just an all around good architecture. Try it out when its released, it will speak for itself. Personally, I'm more interested in the Certificate Server.
    Regards,
    Steve