A little earlier today I recieved the GOLD code for ActiveRoles Server 6.5, the next release in our wildly popular provisioning and administration platform. The public release is still a little way off, but it won’t be long now and the GOLD code will be used to perpare all the teams in Quest for unleashing [...]
One of the conversations I had during my week in Berlin was with Dimitry Kaganski a Sr. Architect here at Quest. He had been asked by a customer, why we were not using Microsoft Outlook Client built-in work-flow to allow Outlook users to click a button to approve or reject work-flow requests in ActiveRoles Server. [...]
Most of the directory owners to which I speak, have for a number of years, been living with legal or regulatory compliance. Most have followed a predictable pattern of first sweating out their initial audit then later rationalizing better ways to implement whatever compliance policy to which they must adhere for sustained compliance. First Audits are [...]
IBM has dropped it’s bid to purchase sun according to the New York Times – citing legal concerns on the part of IBM. So what is next for SUN? I would imagine it will continue to shed employees until it reaches the 18% employee reduction goal it set in November last year. Already hard pressed [...]
It looks like IBM’s offer for SUN was perfectly timed. Sun announced 1500 employees have been let go as part of the restructuring that will eventually reduce their workforce by 18%. According to SUN, eventually, 5000 to 6000 employees will be let go. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090331/sun-microsystems-layoffs500-workers.htm http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/31/ibm-sun-do-they-have-a-deal-does-it-matter/
Q: What do you get when you combine SUN & IBM A: IBM It is funny how our world works. I was just attended a seminar by SUN, when this article about SUN came across my desk Read the article here. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html Immediately, I realized how painful this is going to be for the folks [...]
