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Was using Sun Identity Manager worth it?

With Oracle’s announcement of the demise of Sun IDM I have been wondering whether or not the transition from an in-house identity management solution to a third party solution was worth the investment in time and effort?  Did we gain anything with Sun IDM that wasn’t already there with our legacy applications? To answer that question [...]
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Oracle Formally Announces Plans for Sun Identity Manager

Oracle has completed their acquisition of Sun.  During a live webcast on the 27th of January Oracle announced their intentions for the major Sun product lines including Sun Identity Manager.  You can find archives of many of the webcasts at Oracle’s Sun Product Strategy site. The first thing I noted was that Oracle does not intend [...]
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

I received an email asking why I keeping using Sun Identity Manager if I disliked the product as much as I do.  The truth is that I don’t dislike it, but I sure don’t love it either.  Sun Identity Manager solves a provisioning problem for me but at a much higher time investment than I’d [...]
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