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Probably not for me. I'd presume other companies like mine would use LDAP/AD internally and just sync to Google apps using this tool: https://support.google.com/a/answer/106368?hl=en

If this was a hosted LDAP-as-a-service solution that syncs with Google apps I'd be interested in using it at home. I also know of a couple of small companies that would love to not have any IT infrastructure in-house.

Good luck :)

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@habith, thanks for your input. The Google tool referenced above is not a bi-directional tool. It merely updates your Google apps account with information from an LDAP service, not the other way around.

A hosted LDAP as-a service is good feedback.

I know it's unidirectional. I was saying that we'd mostly make our changes internally and push it to Google and centralize user/group management using our internal on-site LDAP server.

The idea of an external tool modifying our local LDAP/AD server is not something we'd go for. I suspect other people might feel the same way.

However, if we were smaller (or didn't have internal IT resources) like a lot of clients we work with, an external LDAP/Google apps combo sounds like a winning solution :)

Thanks @habith, that's good input.

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