<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Also, keep in mind that the hugest directories...are often small in disk space and easy to do 100% caching in memory. I have a RHDS directory with over 120K users and I have 100% caching enabled...for about 3G of RAM. My response time is usually under 15 mils and the average cpu utilization is only around 4% at it's peak. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also, just from a cost perspective I would say RHDS or Fedora DS is a much much much better bargain then AD. I would only use AD if I was doing a windows network or using some other Microsoft centric technology. </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ---- From: "fedora-directory-users-request@redhat.com" <fedora-directory-users-request@redhat.com> To: fedora-directory-users@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00:08 PM Subject: Fedora-directory-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 21 Send Fedora-directory-users mailing list submissions to <A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users@redhat.com</A> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users" target=_blank>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users</A> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users-request@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users-request@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users-request@redhat.com</A> You can reach the person managing the list at <A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users-owner@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users-owner@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users-owner@redhat.com</A> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Fedora-directory-users digest..." 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RE: Business Case: Advantage OpensourceDirectory VS Active Directory (<A href="mailto:ben.van.veen@planet.nl" ymailto="mailto:ben.van.veen@planet.nl">ben.van.veen@planet.nl</A>) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:30:25 +0200 From: <<A href="mailto:ben.van.veen@planet.nl" ymailto="mailto:ben.van.veen@planet.nl">ben.van.veen@planet.nl</A>> Subject: RE: [Fedora-directory-users] Business Case: Advantage OpensourceDirectory VS Active Directory To: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project." <<A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users@redhat.com</A>> Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:A0EE65E19A1F274DB66934B65F8ECCB402A47E80@CPEXBE-EML21.kpnsp.local" ymailto="mailto:A0EE65E19A1F274DB66934B65F8ECCB402A47E80@CPEXBE-EML21.kpnsp.local">A0EE65E19A1F274DB66934B65F8ECCB402A47E80@CPEXBE-EML21.kpnsp.local</A>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi William, One of the things you need to address is the performance / speed of authentication. Can your (AD -) server forest handle the amount of new kind of authentication requests beside the WINS / DNS etc. I have 2-servers ( in replica) of Fedora DS (FDS) with over 800k users. This is only for authentication of our website. There is also an read-only replica of the AD on it for internal use. Till now there is no performance issue. We decided to move to FDS due to the amount of external users. We did this only for performance. AD could do it as well. Ben. ________________________________ Van: <A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com</A> namens <A href="mailto:cobra@cobradevil.org" ymailto="mailto:cobra@cobradevil.org">cobra@cobradevil.org</A> Verzonden: ma 18-8-2008 16:09 Aan: <A href="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fedora-directory-users@redhat.com">fedora-directory-users@redhat.com</A> Onderwerp: [Fedora-directory-users] Business Case: Advantage OpensourceDirectory VS Active Directory Hello all, I have a question why i should use an opensource directory server for my opensource activities! I work for a large company! 70k users We have a large MS Windows based infrastructure win2k3 with winxp workstations. For our open source servers and workstations we thought to get an Opensource Directory server because of the specific options that Active Directory cannot deliver. 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