Tools

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Too many features layered on a single tool. Haq the tool and the dependencies will cripple your service offering.

LDAP is not a tool, it is a protocol that can be used by many tools to communicate in the same way that many servers (BIND, NSD, DJBDNS, MS-DNS, QuickDNS) can use the DNS protocol to communicate with countless clients (Netscape, sendmail, ...).

tool in the generic sense. too many things that depend on LDAP for proper functioning -will- make LDAP a tempting target.

Once this begins to provide benefit in North America, the rest of the world will soon follow.

presuming facts not in evidence.

--Michael Dillon