Read this new report. I know we’re not the quickest off the mark, but we wanted to get the whole team working together to author something comprehensive, and with travel and so on, that took a few days. We’ll admit to being pessimistic about BEA’s prognosis going into the Oracle acquisition, but Oracle’s early communications [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by admin
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by admin
Along with an assorted collection of other analysts and journalists, on Friday I sat down for a conversation with Charles Phillips. The invitation to came pretty much out of the blue a couple of weeks ago; the reason was because “Charles is interested in having a conversation about Web 2.0 trends in the enterprise, and [...]
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 by admin
As part of my research into all things collaboration, not least through my development of our forthcoming continuous advisory service, I have regular briefings with software vendors to find out what they are doing. Usually vendors are more than pleased to brief us analysts – anything to build the profile of their company or products [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 by admin
As someone who wrote a little on the potential acquisition of BEA by Oracle, I’ve been in a quandary since the news of the acquisition broke: frankly, I felt that I needed to write something – but there was already so much other commentary out there (much of it saying the same thing), I didn’t [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by admin
Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its “identity management-through-acquisition” strategy. With many eyes focused on the company’s Oracle Open World shindig this week, Sun also entered the fray with its plans to acquire another leader ERM independent: Vaau. Role-based access control (RBAC) is hardly [...]
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by admin
Most readers will by now be familiar with the recent sparring between Oracle and BEA (just see our del.icio.us links over the past days to get an update if you’re not up to speed). There’s been plenty said about this already of course, but I thought it would be fun to look past the “industry [...]
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 by admin
Oracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by admin
I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the company’s TechEd conference. The RedMonkers James and Coté did a great job of live blogging the event (here, here, here, here, here and here) – and there was even [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 by admin
Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture’s (its VC arm) investment in another identity management specialist: Ping Identity and at the beginning of 2006 predicted that SAP would enter the identity management acquisition fray. My [...]
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 by admin
