I have been neglecting this blog for a while, and it took an event of historic importance to pull me out of my reverie and back into the blogosphere. No, I am not talking of the arrival on this earth of Suri Cruise. It was the eagerly anticipated publication of Gartner’s magic quadrant on User
Working as I am on the architecture for the next generation of our IdM products, I found the thesis of this article extremely interesting. It basically uses Windows as an example of how the cost of innovation increases dramatically with any attempt to make that innovation backwards compatible. And points out how Apple tackled a
In an internal memo last October, Ray Ozzie, CTO for Microsoft, wrote, “Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.” Amen to that! That is why the new focus of the IdM groups should
One thing that I found surprising at the CAB was the lack of discussion around SPML. Admittedly, the standard hasn’t made enough progress, and is nowhere near the maturity that (for instance) SAML has achieved. But I would have thought that the need for it would make it a hot issue for those who haven’t
At the end of another customer council meeting, one thing was abundantly clear – our customers have no intention of being faceless names on a list somewhere. They have opinions, they are vocal, and they would very much like to be a part of the development process. Hot button topics were support, roadmap visibility and