[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Why did Red Hat buy Netscape Directory Server and
Netscape Certificate Management System from America Online Inc.’s
Netscape division? One year ago, we rolled out a statement
of direction for Red Hat Linux. By adding a logical volume manager,
cluster file system [and other parts], we have been building on
that successfully. A piece of the architecture that we felt was
critical to finish was the area around directory services…”