LDAP Spoken Here

LDAP-aware software has mushroomed in the past two years, fueled by the explosion of electronic commerce on the Internet and by the maturing of commercial LDAP server products. LDAP is key to providing secure and controlled access to data shared on the Internet, and it is the natural hub for the storage and management of public certificates.

Stand-alone LDAP servers can be obtained from Netscape, the University of Michigan, the OpenLDAP Project (which is carrying forward the University of Michigan source code), IBM, Oracle, and Innosoft.

Several major operating systems include or will soon include an LDAP server: Solaris 8, the next version of HP-UX, Windows 2000, and NetWare 5.

Routers from the major vendors will use LDAP and ...

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