For those of you grappling with the the fast moving world of identity management, you could do a lot worse than cast your eyes over Doc Searls article over at the Linux Journal. It provides a great summary of the work of Kim Cameron (glowing praise – completely justified – for Microsoft in Linux Journal!), [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 by adminYesterday, Microsoft and JBoss announced plans to enhance the integration between Windows Server and the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System. The two companies plan to focus on four key areas: Interoperability – web services; Security – Active Directory; Manageability – management of JEMS using Microsoft Operations Manager; Data – optimisation of SQL Server for use with [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by adminThe past few weeks have seen a major flurry of industry activity, comment and posturing in the office productivity software arena. For five years or so – ever since the end of the small blip that was Corel‘s vain attempt to build a viable office productivity suite in Java – this part of the world [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by adminBack in June I commented on the investment of $7.5 million in Ping Identity by SAP’s VC arm. Well, that investment appears to be bearing fruit. At SAP TechEd ’05 in Boston yesterday, Ping announced the availability (as a free download) of kits to integrate Ping’s federated identity solution with SAP’s NetWeaver. I am sure [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by adminI was told by Scott Woodgate at this week’s Microsoft PDC that WWF is not an officially-sanctioned term for referring to the newly-announced Windows Workflow Foundation (formally announced at PDC). Which is a shame, because I suspect that the arrival of WWF will – if Microsoft executes well – usher in a bit of a [...]
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 by adminOur blog is meant to provide “our latest thoughts and ideas on IT-business alignment, together with comments on relevant industry events” and I am not sure I can stretch the use of the term relevant to encompass Ebay’s $2.6 billion (and potentially $4.1 billion) acquisition of Skype – but I couldn’t resist. The fact that [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 by admin
