Entries Tagged as 'Directory Server'
An Industry Redefined: Analyzing Oracle-Sun Transition
Posted By Federico Paini
April 27, 2009| IDM , Sun , Directory Server , Oracle , IAM , Java , MySQLIt is now common knowledge that Oracle announced its intention to
buy Sun Microsytems for $7.4B. The acquisition will be completed in the
next 3-5 months. Speaking from the viewpoint as an ex Sun employee, I
think this move makes lot of sense. At the same time I was very
surprised at this turn of events.
The Oracle-Sun acquisition has a lot of implications for the IT sector
as a whole. In the next paragraphs I’m going to attempt to analyze this
event on two levels: political and technological.
Directory Servers vs Relational Databases
Posted By Bill Nelson
August 14, 2008| Directory Server , LDAPAn interesting question was posed on LinkedIn that asked, "If you were the architect of LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook or other social networking sites and wanted to model the relationships amongst users and had to use LDAP, what would the schema look like?"
Lessons Learned from Enterprise Identity Management Projects
Posted By Bill Nelson
August 01, 2008| IDM , Directory Server , Professional ServicesI have been implementing and/or managing identity-related projects for over 10 years now and I can say, from experience, that the biggest problem with any Identity Management project can be summed up in one word: EXPECTATIONS.