A History of LDAP [1]#
LDAP was co-developed by Tim Howes of the University of Michigan, Steve Kille of Isode Limited, and Wengyik Yeong
of Performance Systems International, in 1993.
Feel free to add to this list or post comments and references.
| Date Event | Source |
|---|---|
| 1969 | First Arpanet node comes online; first RFC published. |
| 1973 | Ethernet invented by Xerox PARC researchers. |
| 1982 | TCP/IP replaces older Arpanet protocols on the Internet. |
| 1982 | First distributed computing research paper on Grapevine published by Xerox PARC researchers. |
| 1984 | Internet DNS comes online. |
| 1986 | IETF formally chartered. |
| 1987 | LattisNet/SynOptics Communications shipped 10 megabits/sec data transfer rates over Unshielded Twisted Pair, telephone wire |
| 1989 | Quipu (X.500 software package) released. |
| 1990 | Estimated number of Internet hosts exceeds 250,000. |
| 1990 | 10BASE-T (IEEE 802.3i was standardized |
| 1990 | First version of the X.500 standard published. |
| 1991 | A team at CERN headed by Tim Berners-Lee releases the first World Wide Web software. |
| 1992 | University of Michigan developers release the first LDAP software. |
| 1993 | NDS debuts in NetWare 4.0. |
| 1993-07 | LDAP was co-developed by Tim Howes of the University of Michigan, Steve Kille of Isode Limited, and Wengyik Yeong of Performance Systems International, in 1993. |
| 1995-12 | First standalone LDAP server (SLAPD) ships as part of U-M LDAP 3.2 release. |
| 1996-04 | Consortium of more than 40 leading software vendors endorses LDAP as the Internet directory service protocol of choice. |
| 1996 | Netscape Hires Tim Howes, Mark Smith, and Gordon Good from University of Michigan. Tim Howes serves as a directory server architect. |
| 1997-09 | Sun Microsystems releases Sun Directory Services 1.0, derived from U-M LDAP 3.2 |
| 1997-11 | LDAPv3 named the winner of the PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence. |
| 1997-11 | LDAPv3 approved as a proposed Internet Standard. |
| 1998 | The OpenLDAP Project was started by Kurt Zeilenga. The project started by cloning the LDAP reference source from the University Of Michigan. |
| 1998-01 | Netscape ships the first commercial LDAPv3 directory server. |
| 1998-03 | Innosoft International acquires Mark Wahl’s Critical Angle company releases LDAP directory server product 4.1 one month later. |
| 1998-07 | Sun Microsystems ships Sun Directory Server 3.1, implementing LDAPv3 standards |
| 1998-07 | Estimated number of Internet hosts exceeds 36 million. |
| 1999 | Novell INC release EDirectory on platforms other than NetWare. |
| 1999 | AOL acquires Netscape and forms the iPlanet Alliance with Sun Microsystems. |
| 1999-03 | Innosoft International team, led by Mark Wahl, releases Innosoft International Distributed Directory Server 5.0 |
| 1999 | Microsoft Active Directory was previewed. |
| 2000-03 | Sun Microsystems acquires Innosoft International, merges Innosoft International directory code with iPlanet. This forms the foundation for the iPlanet Directory Access Router. |
| 2000 | Windows Server 2000, first release of Microsoft Active Directory, was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999. Windows 2000 officially launched to retail on February 17, 2000.[3] |
| 2001-03 | The iPlanet Alliance ends and Sun Microsystems and Netscape fork the codebase. |
| 2004-03 | Apache Directory Server Top Level Project is formed after 1 year in incubation |
| 2004-03 | RedHat Purchases Netscape Server products |
| 2005 | Sun Microsystems initiates the OpenDS project. An open source directory server based on the Java platform. |
| 2005-05 | RedHat Releases Fedora Directory Server |
| 2006-10 | Apache Directory Project Apache Directory 1.0 is released |
| 2007 | UnboundID releases its directory server |
| 2008 | AOL Stops Supporting Netscape Products |
| 2009-04 | Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems |
| 2009-05 | RedHat changes the Fedora Directory Server to 389 Directory Server |
| 2010-02-01 | ForgeRock is founded |
| 2010-12 | ForgeRock releases OpenDJ |
| 2011-12 | Oracle releases Oracle Unified Directory |
| 2011 | Novell INC acquisition was completed by Attachmate Group and EDirectory is now under the NetIQ brand. |
| 2014-11-20 | Micro Focus completed its merger with the Attachmate Group of companies and EDirectory is now under the Micro Focus brand. |
| 2016-09-07 | Micro Focus announced its intent to merge with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business segment. |
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:[#1] - http://idmdude.com/2012/04/13/the-most-complete-history-of-directory-services-you-will-ever-find/
[#3] - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/1999/dec99/w2krtmpr.aspx retrieved 2012-06-21
