[389-users] Centos 6?

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 02:31 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It has come a long way in 2 years, IMHO. It maybe a little fresh still for production in some ways, hence we will look at it and kick it tyres in a POC (proof of concept), but I have huge pressures to put something in. There are several aspects to consider, from our perspective our admin users are very...uh...diverse in their skill set so ease of use is a biggee as is phone support from someone like RH.  Some swings and roundabouts will be evident but that's the same for all products.
> 
> For instance comparing products,  so far I've tried
> 
> Sun's IdM, the gui wouldnt work, Sun's reply we dont know why, install it on solaris and come back....uh no thanks....
> Oracle's IdM and in 6 weeks couldn't get it installed, Oracle wanted 30k for training, $300 and hour for support and $150k to install and set it up.....crazy money.
> I tried 389, complex early documentation (7.1 I think it was), no support though.
> RDS, not available in NZ.
> win2k3R2 AD, 4 days no workie, gave up.
> win2k8R2 AD, worked straight off, doesnt look like its got much management capability though.
> FreeIPA up and running in a few days.....lots of management.
> 
> So, so far IPA is looking better than most of what I've looked at, say the top 3. 
>  
> regards
> 
> Steven Jones
> 
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
> 
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
> 
> 0064 4 463 6272
> 
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> I last looked at FreeIPA about two years ago.  It looked great but was
> still very, very immature.  Is it ready for production yet?
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Very helpful.  Thanks - John