The matter seemed to be resolved but the following year Oracle sent another threatening email. So the desire to move off BerkeleyDB was firmly planted in 2009... Around that time we got contacted by MySQL, to do a joint project to build an OpenLDAP backend on their new NDB Cluster. This seemed pretty promising as a solution for scaling OpenLDAP capacity and soon we had a usable back-ndb. Then Sun bought MySQL, and the project grew to a partnership with Sun/OpenDS too. https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/thread/RS7KHPQLNCDYB35K2EJUWNPQBNLQRCJD/?sort=thread