[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and RHDS : Are there any differences between them ?

[Bliss, Aaron]

>    I would like to ask you something : You wrote that you was in the 
> same boat I'm now almost one year ago. Since then, have you deployed 
> RHDS already ? Does it worked exactly as you tought it would work 
> based on your tests using FDS ?

No, fds turned out to be very solid, and the community support is great, as such, we couldn't justify the cost of rds, especially since to date we still would not have taken advantage of the paid for support...

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Megginson [mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:19 AM
To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project.
Cc: Bliss, Aaron
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] FDS and RHDS : Are there any differences between them ?

André Luís Lopes wrote:
> Hello Aaron,
>
> Bliss, Aaron escreveu:
>> Andre,
>> I was told by an rhce from RedHat (we were in the same boat that your 
>> in almost 1 year ago) that there is not any difference between fds 
>> and rds, other than the redhat logos have been removed from the fds 
>> version.
>
>    First of all, sorry for replying so late, I was really very busy 
> these days. Nice to know that someone from Red Hat confirmed that bot 
> FDS and RHDS are technnically identical.
>
>    I would like to ask you something : You wrote that you was in the 
> same boat I'm now almost one year ago. Since then, have you deployed 
> RHDS already ? Does it worked exactly as you tought it would work 
> based on your tests using FDS ?
>
>    What I'm most concerned with is some potential feature lacking  in 
> RHDS (as FDS seems to be updated more frequently than RHDS and I'm 
> testing using the latest FDS version, 1.0.4) compared to FDS, as I'm 
> testing with FDS and would like to deploy RHDS later.
The biggest difference right now is that FDS 1.0.x uses Apache for the 
Admin Server (http engine) instead of NES used in RHDS 7.1.  Aside from 
that, all of the major features are the same.
>
>    Also, if someone from Red Hat is reading this message and would 
> like to comment on this, please, be welcome to give your comments.
>
> Regards,
>

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