Apache Directory Server 1.0 certified by Open Group as LDAPv3 server
Congratulations to the Apache DS team for the certification. It was announced during ApacheCon US in Austin this week.
It’s nice to see Alex Karasulu’s baby come to life with such certification after all the hard work he has put into it. He initiated this project on Oct 16th 2002 as LDAPd, so it’s nearly a 4-year project. Well done Alex !
My friend Emmanuel Lecharny also spent an insane amount of time working at night for more than 2 years on Apache DS and decided 2 months ago to dedicate to it full time and in a totally benevolent way. Through Emmanuel’s consulting company IKTEK, Pierre Arnaud Marcelot is also doing amazing work as an intern and was recently voted a committer.
If you need some LDAP expertise in France or around. You can contact Emmanuel @ IKTEK.
Thanks a lot, Stéphane.
Yes, we are very proud we could make it in time, as the roadmap was really tight, but everything went fine : as soon as we have made the Open Group certification, we were able to release ADS 1.0. In fact, this was for us the moto for 1.0 : this should be Open Grouo certified.
This was a lot of work, but thanks to those great guys in ADS team ( Ersin Er, Alex Karasulu, Trustin Lee, Stefan Szörner and *many* others, included you, Stéphane, for all the bug reports, and the support you gave us), we did it. I’m very pleased to be a part of this group, and to be part of the Apache community.
I will try to give some impressions about Apache Conference somwhere on the web today or tomorrow…
Thanks again !
Comment by Emmanuel Lécharny — October 15, 2006 @ 11:18 am