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Conclusion

For many years , a number of different directory services competed for the interest of information service professionals, application software developers, and users. Today it is clear that LDAP has moved to the front and center of the directory services space, and there is much excitement and energy being put into developing and deploying LDAP directories. LDAP emerged from the rest of the pack to dominate the directory services space because of the following factors:

  • LDAP is simple, yet versatile ”   LDAP supports a wide variety of directory-enabled applications that have widely varying needs.

  • LDAP is ubiquitous ”   A good implementation of LDAP was developed and distributed freely on the Internet by researchers at the University of Michigan. This provided much of LDAP's early momentum. Today, LDAP implementations are available for every major and most minor computing platforms that are in use.

  • LDAP directories are inexpensive and easy to understand ”   Organizations that choose LDAP directories find them to be relatively inexpensive to deploy and maintain. LDAP directory systems are simple enough that an army of consultants is not needed to understand and deploy them.

  • LDAP directory services simply work better ”   The high reliability, performance, and scalability of LDAP directory products, combined with their general-purpose design, allows them to meet the most important directory services needs.

  • LDAP has a lot of " mindshare " ”   Shortly after Netscape and 40 other software companies put their support behind LDAP in early 1996, interest in LDAP exploded. The hunger for a single directory standard is being filled by LDAP, and momentum continues to grow.

In short, LDAP is making the dream of a universal, general-purpose directory service a reality on the Internet and within organizations.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing
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Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672323168
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1997
Pages: 245

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