Driversoft announces LDAP client and API's for the BeOS

Driversoft announces LDAP client and API's for the BeOS

RELEASED NOVEMBER 12, 1998

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Driversoft announces LDAP client and API's for the BeOS

Salt Lake City, UT - November 12, 1998: Driversoft, Inc. today announced their LDAP client software for the BeOS tentatively set for release in the first quarter of 1999. Driversoft is also developing an LDAP API for the BeOS®.

Driversoft's LDAPv3 client allows the BeOS to connect to and retrieve data from any LDAP server such as Novell NetWare, the OpenLDAP projects' slapd and other X500 based directories. LDAP is often used to access company wide address books and internet directories. Using Driversoft's LDAP API, developers will be able to make products such as mail clients and browsers LDAP aware.

The LDAP client is the first step in Driversoft's goal to make the BeOS a fully functional directory service client. "With LDAP we have a good base allowing us to access most major directory services" says Douglas Britsch, Driversoft's Director of Technical Services.

About Driversoft

Established in 1997, Driversoft Incorporated is a Utah based company developing networking and media software products for the BeOS. Driversoft also writes device drivers and custom software products for multiple OS platforms.

About Be

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance.

In July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.