Red Hat Directory Server is on the agenda for the company’s first Red Hat Summit user conference, which next Wednesday kicks off in New Orleans where the company will outline the product’s features.
Red Hat Directory Server is based on Netscape Directory Server, one of a number of products Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat acquired from AOL for an undisclosed fee, along with the Netscape Certificate Management System.
Speaking at the UBS Software and IT Services Conference, Red Hat’s executive vice president of worldwide operations, Joanne Rohde, said there is significant interest in the LDAP server product.
This was a popular product with Netscape and even though AOL did not actively sell it during the time AOL owned it, there is a lot of corporate interest in this product, she said. The PKI product that goes alongside the directory is another very important product given the security issues that enterprises face nowadays, and we’ve seen a lot of interest in that as well.
As well as launching the product standalone, Red Hat is also expected to integrate the directory technology with its existing Linux operating system and systems management products to deliver new directory-enabled management functionality.
Over time, we believe one of the advantages of the directory and the PKI integrated with the operating system, integrated with the Red Hat Network, will be the ability to manage the desktop and the server from exactly the same environment with a very high level of security, she said.
