Re: [SLUG] Contact management databases..

[Richard PIper <rpiper@nospam.med.usyd.edu.au>]

Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Richard PIper wrote:
> 
> > Charlie Brady wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm facing migration of our contact database to something newer than
> > > Informix 4GL on a MIPS RiscOS box.
> >
> > Have you thought of using openldap to do this?
> >
> > http://www.openldap.org/
> >
> > I understand it is good for directory type services.
> > I have not had it running myself, but it is used at
> > macquarie university
> >
> > http://directory.mq.edu.au:8888/Mo=Macquarie%20University,%20c=AU
> 
> I've looked at openLDAP and intend to set it up. But the repository back
> end is not the problem, it's a nice UI for entering, modifying and
> searching the data that I'm on the lookout for.
> 

I could be wrong about this, but I think communicator will browse 
an LDAP server. If you look at the http://www.mq.edu.au site, they use
some sort of 
open source front end to ldap.

Richard
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