Directory Drivers

Two main motivating factors drove Netscape to deploy an organizationwide LDAP directory:

1. Ensuring the quality of the Netscape Directory Server . The original motivation behind the internal deployment was to provide a test bed for Netscape Directory Server. The internal deployment provided valuable feedback and helped the software engineers improve the quality of the product before it was made available for beta testing.

2. Supporting directory-enabled applications . Nearly all of Netscape's software products are directory-enabled. As each new directory-enabled product neared completion, it was deployed internally both to test the product in a real-world situation and to improve the productivity of Netscape's employees .