Free software events for December 2005

[Alex Maier]

Rahul,
This is great! Please post the link to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive

Cheers,
a

On 1/11/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Free software magazine has a year end report which mentions Fedora
> Directory Server.
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/newsletters/event_report_december_2005/index_p2.html
>
> "Freeing of the directory server software
>
> It always gives me a warm feeling when proprietary software is freed.
> This happened when Red Hat bought Netscape's Directory Server. They
> promptly released it as free software. On the second of this month Red
> Hat released the next incarnation of the Fedora Directory Server 1.0
> <http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/company/news/prarchive/2005/press_fedora_dir.html>.
> This includes many enterprise level features of LDAP, such as version 3
> of the protocol, multi-master replication and Windows synchronisation.
> Along with the engine, it includes console and administration utilities;
> all of which can be ported from GNU/Linux to other platforms.
>
> The strategy that Red Hat uses in its Open Directory product is typical.
> It first releases the latest and new "bleeding edge" software as free
> software to the community through the Fedora project, giving the
> community what they want. After it has become more mature, and the
> stability is guaranteed, they use it to release their enterprise stable
> and static version of the product—still free software—to corporations,
> governments and other enterprise customers giving them what they want.
> It's a good example of how to make money using free software and the
> community business model."
>
>
> --
> Rahul
>
> Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
>
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