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100 and counting: oak trees and acorns

Well, I have to say I’m surprised! Our only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek SOA 2.0 petition (stop the madness!) has now attracted over 100 signatures. I think we’re still a long way from beating back the tide of Oracle’s misplaced SOA 2.0 marketing messages, but I’m dead chuffed we’ve even got this far. When we recorded our recent SOA [...]

Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 by

EMC and nLayers – another quart to be squeezed in a pint pot

A long, long time ago, I remember I was in a briefing with EMC. “Storage is a software problem,” I said, to much general agreement and backslapping all around. While EMC was no stranger to acquisition, this was before it had made any of its “strategic” software purchases such as Documentum, Legato and VMware. Having [...]

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Lots happening in world of identity management

The last couple of weeks have seen a lot of activity in identity management land. Last week saw Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, which is always one of the key events in the identity management calendar. Although I wasn’t able to be there it has been admirably covered by Sun’s Mark Dixon and Digital ID World‘s [...]

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