Title: Explains the concepts
Product review: Though I have only read the first 3 chapters so far, I find this book better at explaining the concepts behind LDAP than Mark Wilcox's "Implementing LDAP". I wanted to understand more about this LDAP thing as a system designer (with a strong RDBMS background). Quite early on, the book explains the differences between directories, databases, file systems, FTP servers, DNS servers and Web servers.I found the first 3 chapters well explained, and conceptual enough for my purposes. I do intend to go back and read "Part II: Designing your directory service", though I probably skip the rest, which is more useful to implementors. (The rest of the book covers deployment, maintenance, using LDAP with applications, and case studies).I found the book easy to read, and would recommend the book as a general overview of LDAP that covers many angles.
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