The development of View500 began in 1989 at the Telstra Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia, to meet Telstra's organisational requirements for a corporate electronic directory. The development was led by Rolf Exner and Dr Stephen Legg then at the forefront in the development and design of the global ISO X.500 standard.

As part of this development Telstra built into the directory solution a set of sophisticated search capabilities designed to make the implementation extremely easy to use by any web or windows user providing support for approximate matching on a search request, including phonetic matching and spelling correction, truncation matching, abbreviations, keyword matching, synonyms, and any combinations of these requests.

In 1999, the View500 software was acquired from Telstra Research Labs by Adacel Technologies Ltd who continued the development of View500 adding native support for LDAP v2 and v3.

In 2004 eB2Bcom - Australia's leading identity management solution provider, acquired the View500 software, customer base and the development and support teams from Adacel Technologies Ltd. With these additional resources, eB2Bcom continues to develop and maintain the View500 product whilst maintaining an active role in the LDAP and XED (XML Enabled directory) standards advancements. Since 2004, eB2Bcom has added a whole range of new features and facilities to the product - not least the ability to store XML objects and schema in the Directory and to provide for searching, using Component matching, any directory data including XML objects. A major new release of View500 - Version 7 with a lot of new features and capabilities is due to be released in November 2008.

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