[kdepim-users] Re: Akonadi + nfs home directories

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 04 April 2011, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> > How does OpenLDAP help with the task of providing a single point of
> > access to all kinds of data
> 
> By providing a single point of access to all kinds of data. This is
> *exactly* what LDAP is all about.
> 
> LDAP provides access to distributed directory services. It is already
> used for address books (e.g. in Evolution, Thunderbird,
> OpenOffice.org, Lotus Notes, Outlook, ...) user management, PAM
> authentication, management of SMTP, POP and IMAP data, ... LDAP is
> the de-facto industry standard for these kind of things.
> 
> Adapting a quote from Henry Spencer: "Those who do not understand
> LDAP are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

AFAIU, I quickly skimmed the Wikipedia page about LDAP, LDAP does not 
provide transparent access to data stored in local files, on mail 
servers, on groupware servers, in social networks, etc. But that's 
exactly what Akonadi [1] provides. Moreover, I found no indication that 
LDAP provides change notifications.


Regards,
Ingo

[1] http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi
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