Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:
Hi folks,
I need to install an LDAP server in my job. I am, obviously, an
OpenBSD guy but my boss wants to install the server with HP-UX. I need
to probe him that OpenBSD is a better solution than HP-UX but google
doesn't show a truly comparative between this two OS and there is a
"poor" information about the HP-UX skills doing this role. The price for
the "solution" (HP-UX or OpenBSD) does not matter this time, so the
argument "OpenBSD is OpenSource and the other is a propietary Unix $$"
is not an acceptable argument.
Anyone have experience with this two OS?? Is there any heavy reason
(argument) to choose one over the other? Remember: it is an LDAP
server...not a database server....not a webserver.....not a file server.
We run an OpenLDAP installation on OpenBSD that is fully synchronized on
two servers (one master, one slave) for the public schools here.
~15'000 accounts and all important systems (email, fileserver, even the
~80 firewalls, login, etc.) pull their data from it.
It is in operation for several years now, not a single problem with it.
I can say nothing about HP-UX, but OpenBSD surely is a stable foundation
for an OpenLDAP server.
- Marc Balmer, micro systems
