It has been a busy day. I attended part of the OpenDS Community call. It was a great call with insight into the upcoming inclusion of OpenDS in OpenSolaris. OpenDS can be installed on OpenSolaris today but what is new is that it will be available in the new OpenSolaris application repository. I have blogged before on the importance of user experience in software. This is especially important for infrastructure sotware as it increases adoption, ...

There are great things happening in the OpenDS project. Last week the team released a major update to the code. The release also contained a great new console to manage schema, edit entries, etc. I will blog more about this later in the week. Additionally, Ludo is having his monthly call this morning to go over the new release and discuss some upcoming feature's. Hopefully, you can join the call. Here are the details. Dear ...

Developing great software requires a clear understanding of customer requirements. One critical advantage of open source software development is that you can have an ongoing and open conversation with your customers. This is one of several reasons why we maintain an IRC chat room for OpenDS. It not only provides valuable access to engineers and support team members for the community but it also provides a channel for communication. Today, I was in the OpenDS ...

I recently moved over to the Directory Services team to take on the Product Line Management position. I had a lot of fun working with the OpenSSO team and I am excited about the great things that team has released into the market place. Another exciting thing about the job change, besides continuing to work with the OpenSSO team as they embed OpenDS as the configuration store in their product, is that I get to ...