With the Sun acquisition complete, we can finally start talking about what this means for various product lines. Thomas Kurian touched on the identity management strategy in the big Wednesday launch event, and I recapped what he said in my previous blog post. Now, the next level of detail has come from Hasan Rizvi, SVP [...]
Posts under ‘Oracle Identity Management’
Today is the day: Oracle + Sun = Exciting Days Ahead
Well, it’s finally here. After months and months of delay, Oracle announced it finalized its acquisition of Sun.
It took so long, I think of lot of people thought this day was just a mirage. And unfortunately, the delay has cost us (in the identity management team) the opportunity to work with some great folks like [...]
Executive IdM Session at OpenWorld: It’s All About Managing Risk
One of the things I did at OpenWorld this year was attend an Executive IdM Session that brought together folks from the IdM team and some of our best customers to share information and talk about the future direction of identity management at Oracle. It was an interesting gathering with lots of good discussion that [...]
Talking Identity Services at OpenWorld
I was hoping to find some time to dig a little deeper into some of the themes, conversations and ideas that were floating around the halls at DIDW last week. Unfortunately, time was not a luxury I had this week. I am writing this aboard a flight to San Francisco, as I head there to [...]
We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!
UPDATE (August 27, 2008): I have updated the blog post to avoid violating certain copyright issues with Gartner
Gartner has released their latest Magic Quadrant on User Provisioning. It’s good to see that we have built on our previous success to emerge as one of the best (if not the best) in the Provisioning industry. I [...]
The Frameworks are Coming
I read with great interest Kim Cameron’s most recent post about the Beta release of Zermatt, Microsoft’s new identity application development framework. It is a step towards the kind of programming framework that I have been talking about and working on with my colleagues at Oracle for a while now. So I am just a [...]
Welcoming Jeff Shukis to the Oracle Blogs network
My colleague Jeff Shukis, who used to be VP of Engineering and Operations at Bridgestream, has started a blog of his own to talk about identity management, role management in particular. In his first post, he has started a deeper dive into the shortcomings of the NIST RBAC standard, an issue that I raised a [...]
Whoa! Talk about trying to spread FUD
A colleague of mine forwarded me this Sun blog post by Paul Walker commenting on the rise of Oracle IAM to leadership status. I read it with some amusement, as I remembered my days at Thor when I, a hard-working serf in a startup, would rail (in private, as I didn’t have a blog back [...]
Where Social Networking meets Enterprise Applications
You may have heard the term Enterprise 2.0 thrown around a lot recently. The term (allegedly) refers to the idea of bringing all the concepts (and associated hype) seen in the booming social networking arena to bear on how Enterprises go about their business.
As seen on Wikipedia:
Enterprise social software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, is [...]
Talking about the Identity Bus/Hub/Provider
There has been a lot of discussion recently on the topic of an Identity Bus (see the recent newsletters by Dave Kearns from May 5, May 7, May 12 and May 14, and some blog posts by Kim Cameron and our own Clayton Donley). The use of the word “Bus” creates some confusion, since what [...]

















