ID mgmt. world gets smaller as Quest buys Vintela

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
06/06/05
Today's focus: ID mgmt. world gets smaller as Quest buys
Vintela

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Today's focus: ID mgmt. world gets smaller as Quest buys
Vintela

By Dave Kearns

Quest software, which sometimes appears relentless in its
pursuit of Active Directory-based technologies, opened its
pocketbook again last week when it offered $56.5 million for
Vintela, the company that pioneered extending simplified sign-on
based on Active Directory to Unix, Linux and Java-enabled
platforms.

Quest says the deal is expected to close late in the second
quarter or early in the third quarter of 2005.

The interest has been noted for some time, with rumors of an
impending acquisition surfacing at the end of March. Last week,
I spoke with David Waugh Quest vice president of product
marketing and Jackson Shaw Vintela vice president of product
management. Waugh noted that discussions had been going on for
six months but that feelers had been sent out almost a year ago.
Shaw confirmed that the discussions were taking place when he
jumped ship from Microsoft last fall to take up virtual
residence with the Linden, Utah company.

<aside> Small World department: Waugh was a vice president at
Ottawa's Fastlane Technologies when it was acquired by Quest.
Shaw was sales vice president at Zoomit in Ottawa when that
company was acquired by Microsoft. It sometimes seems that the
entire identity management industry is populated solely with
Canucks! </aside>

As well as speaking to Waugh and Shaw last week, I also spoke
with Tom Kemp, CEO at Centrify, which has been Vintela's only
real competitor. Everyone agreed that there's more business in
integrating Unix and Linux to Active Directory than either
Vintela or Centrify can currently handle. Where opinions differ
is about what happens in the future. Quest/Vintela believe that
niche products like directory integration need to be part of a
suite of product offerings that manage all aspects of the
directory and the network (platforms, users, applications,
etc.). Centrify, on the other hand, believes that users still
want to assemble "best of breed" offerings into customized
solutions to their needs.

There are rumors and undercurrents in the industry claiming that
Vintela always saw a buyout as the way the company would go and
that the timing was driven by the difficulties (
<http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2624261> ) into which its
major investor, the Canopy Group, had gotten. Others see the
upcoming release of Windows Server 2003 R2 - with a plethora of
identity related features - as making this the best time to sell
for Vintela, as its value might begin to erode.

This also raises the question "whither Centrify?" When Quest
bought Fastlane five years ago, it signaled open season on small
companies offering migration tools to move Windows NT networks
to Windows 2000. Within a very short time, Fastlane's major
competitors were also acquired - Entivo by Bindview and Mission
Critical by NetIQ. Centrify's Kemp assured me that there are no
plans for the company to be acquired in the next year (we'll
check back on that statement), but it's intriguing to note that
NetIQ's co-founder and senior vice president of products at the
time of the Mission Critical acquisition, is the same Tom Kemp
who founded (and is CEO) of Centrify. It's a really small
world!

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Quest snaps up Vintela to aid with Windows integration
NetworkWorld.com, 05/31/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv2387

Guess who's working at Vintela
Network World, 02/23/05
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nt/2005/0221nt2.html?rl
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
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Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
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