Re: Free software events for December 2005

Hi Free software magazine has a year end report which mentions Fedora Directory Server. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/newsletters/event_report_... "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_fe...;. 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 -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list