To choose is to live... Jacques Brel said "choisir c'est perdre": to choose is to loose. There would indeed be no choice to make if an option was definitely superior to the others. If you choose you will have to balance pros and cons and you will then have to loose. My great colleague, Achilleas Voutsas , reacted on less than a split second on that one. He straight away answered that: "To choose is to LIVE". He is right: if you have no choice, it is monotone. Choice is creativity. Choice is life. Going back to the theme. In 2005 Romain Eude and Gonzague Huet devised a solution allowing one to run an OpenLDAP server on a windows PC. That was brilliant and it helped tremendously the development of an LDAP based system. I could run an entire system on my laptop: database, application sever and OpenLDAP with 20000 entries. If you run Linux, OpenLDAP is no brainer choice to use. On Windows, the setup from that we used in 2005 is very easy but was not