tinyldap is now actually in a state where it begins to be useful. It has a trivial client that can do EQUALS queries, it has a relatively simple server that is meant to be run from tcpserver (see ucspi-tcp), and it already outperforms openldap by a factor of almost 10 for index generation and simple queries.

Time and again I am amazed at how bad the successful software packages out there are. Apache is easily outperformed by fnord, MySQL isn't even a real database, PHP is so slow that Zend actually made a business model out of selling performance enhancing hacks for it... The only widely used free software projects that actually perform well in their market are GNU grep and the Linux kernel (and the latter is an evil bloat monster).

Sometimes the state of the free software is quite depressing. Well, enough talk. Let's do something about it!