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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Oracle, Sun deal brings back the glory days of FUD

What the Oracle, Sun deal means to identity management customers
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Oracle, Sun deal brings back the glory days of FUD

Dave Kearns By Dave Kearns
Last issue I started talking about the Oracle acquisition of Sun and what it means to the identity management industry and, most importantly, the identity management customers. One issue that cropped up in my conversations with vendors, consultants and users surprised me, since I thought we were well beyond the glory days of FUD. Read full story

Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management.

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The biggest losers in the Oracle, Sun deal 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.

Sun ties identity software to Google Apps Premier, Amazon cloud platform Sun Wednesday tied its identity federation software to Google Apps and added its directory and Web application server to the cloud platform it is building for developers to build and test applications.

Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management Oracle will have to make some significant product decisions and integration plans to address the overlap it has with Sun in terms of identity management software, according to experts.

Oracle agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun for $7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making Sun the latest company to be subsumed by the Silicon Valley giant.

Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM Oracle may have decided to buy Sun because it was worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It's not a question of the price - at $7.4 billion, Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than what IBM reportedly was considering. But Oracle may have more use for Sun's technology than IBM ever did.

Identifying the source of corporate threats The Verizon Business RISK team recently released its "2009 Data Breach Investigations Report," which gives a fresh look into the question of whether insiders or outsiders are the larger threat group. The report concludes that 74% of breaches result from external sources and "the predominance of total records lost was attributed to outsiders."

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