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Oracle & Sun IdM Stack, One Perspective from KuppingerCole

 Hello Everyone, well... what interesting times we come to, our number one competitor in the Identity Management space has stepped up and has announced plans to acquire us, sure you've all seen the news... assuming everything goes through as planned, what would any future Identity Management stack look like? Oracle have a very comprehensive and broad line of products from many recent acquisitions, Sun's stack is no where near as wide but does the river run more deeply with the Sun products? We'd like to think so but obviously and most importantly need to share these thoughts with our prospective new employers and here their opinion.  This was an acquisition of Sun after all and not a merger.

Another interesting point is in the interim period prior to the acquisition being formalised (where Sun are still an independent) and I'm looking at my presales proof-of-concept (PoC) run list for the coming weeks and months and seeing a whole bunch of PoCs where we (Sun) are up against Oracle as our primary competitor, makes for interesting times !

Personally I'm looking forward to sharing with our new colleagues our roadmap plans, some confidential, some openly broadcast on the open source forums of dev.java.net  (think OpenSSO) and seeing how Oracle perceive these plans.. If business as usual is anything (Think back to the Siebal and PSFT acquisitions etc) to go by at Oracle regarding acquisitions then its likely that no customer will be left behind this shows Oracle's integrity to customer commitment and is reassuring news for both Oracle and Sun Identity Mgmt customers who've invested in IdM software tech.

Here's one perspective from KuppingerCole on how the shake down could look like:

http://www.kuppingercole.com/articles/fg_mk_oracle_sun220409

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