Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services, Second Edition

Chapter 24. Case Study: Netscape Communications Corporation

• Overview of the Organization

• Directory Drivers

• Directory Service Design

• Directory Service Deployment

• Directory Service Maintenance

• Leveraging the Directory Service

• Summary and Lessons Learned

• Further Reading

• Looking Ahead

Part VI, Case Studies, shows how organizations actually plan for and deploy directory services. The case study presented in this chapter represents a real-life directory deployment with which the authors had direct experience. The other two case studies (presented in Chapter 25, Case Study: A Large Multinational Enterprise, and Chapter 26, Case Study: An Enterprise with an Extranet) are fictional, and they represent the authors' concept of how a directory service could be deployed ...