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Red Hat to open-source Netscape Directory 

There has been a lot of directory news lately. I've been wondering when we'd hear from RedHat and now finely we have:

"Leading Linux vendor, Red Hat, is expected to open source the Netscape Directory technology it acquired last September on the first day of its summit conference in New Orleans on June 1st. As Microsoft Watch reports, Netscape Directory Services (NDS) will be renamed Red Hat Directory Server and the code will be released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). That means anyone will be able to use, modify and redistribute the software. This is good news for organizations running Linux who now will have an alternative to the leading open-source directory software, OpenLDAP."
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