The biggest losers in the Oracle, Sun deal

The identity management persepective of the Oracle, Sun deal Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Splunk Why Traditional IT Management Fails Easily harness and manage the data you need, eliminating the problem of valuable IT data stranded behind separate application silos. Eradicating these enormous inefficiencies allows you to easily access and analyze critical data, increasing productivity, uptime, revenue and customer satisfaction. Spotlight Story The biggest losers in the Oracle, Sun deal By Dave Kearns Last week was the annual RSA Conference, which was the reason for lots and lots of press releases being, well, released. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view), most of them got overlooked because two Silicon Valley "legends-in-their-own-time" shook hands on a blockbuster deal as Oracle agreed to purchase Sun. 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