“Taking aim at what it terms “proprietary thinking,” Novell
revealed plans on Thursday to release an open-source LDAP Software
Developer Kit (SDK) to encourage development of more directory
applications.”
“Because it is based on the LDAP standard, Novell’s SDK will
work with the LDAP-compliant Novell Directory Services (NDS)
eDirectory as well as with third-party directories….”
“The SDK is based on open source code from OpenLDAP, a
foundation dedicated to promoting open source LDAP development.
Novell is a “first-class” partner of OpenLDAP and licenses its
client libraries for the Novell LDAP SDK.“