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4 unusual facts about Lightweight Directory Access Protocol


Banyan VINES

Banyan increasingly turned to StreetTalk as a differentiator, eventually porting it to NT as a stand-alone product and offering it as an interface to LDAP systems.

Event data

Examples of security systems range from authentication applications including LDAP and RACF as well as IDS applications and other security systems.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Mirapoint Email Appliance

Mirapoint Email Appliance is a Unix-like standards-compliant black-box e-mail server, with built-in anti-spam, anti-virus, webmail, POP, IMAP, calendar, and LDAP routing options available.


ISO Development Environment

X.500 was considered too heavyweight to access directories, Colin Robbins implemented a proprietary protocol to solve the problem, this was then significantly re-worked by Tim Howes for DIXIE which led to the development of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

M+NetMail

M+NetMail is designed around open standards, including LDAP, PKCS, iCal, POP3, IMAP4, SSL, and S/MIME.

PhpCodeGenie

It can communicate with multiple databases such as: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MaxDB, Visual FoxPro, FrontBase, InterBase, Firebird, Informix, LDAP, Netezza, SAP DB, Sybase, and generate code from them.


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