Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering

While the name “Netscape” is now mostly dead, its progeny continue to survive and develop. Many are familiar with Mozilla’s efforts on the browser side, but Netscape also had another business — a directory server business now run and expanded upon by Linux vendor Red Hat.

Red Hat has been busily building out a major new evolution of Netscape Directory Server that will officially be called Red Hat Enterprise IPA (Identity, Policy and Audit).

“A challenge historically for Directory Server has been the need for solutions wrapped around it,” Karl Wirth, director for Red Hat’s security business, told InternetNews.com.