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Jan
10
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We're co-hosting a webinar later today with Anne Thomas Manes from Burton and Web Services pioneer Toufic Boubez from Layer7 Technologies. Here's what you'll learn :
- The connection between identity management and SOA governance
- The importance of separating policy and entitlements from service implementation
- The challenges of managing and validating identity in SOA interactions
- Options for managing and enforcing identity-driven SOA policies
- How to implement identity-based governance in real-world SOA
The number of registrations is already very high so sign-up here. See you there.
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Mar
4
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It's been a busy week and didn't get time to blog (maybe I'm becoming a weekend blogger). If I had, here are 3 things I would've blogged about :
First - here's the most lucid argument for net neutrality I've read in a while . According to Tim Berners-Lee (and he should know), the success of the web and the applications we've come to rely on is a direct result of it's open nature. Nobody has to seek permission before they launch the next killer app.
This question should scare the heck out of anyone who's experienced the dismal state of the US cell phone networks (currently stuck in the 1990's) :
"What if the Internet
wasn't designed the way it was? What if it worked more like cell phone
or satellite TV networks do here in the United States?"
Just thinking about this sends shivers down my spine.
Turn this around - what if the networks (cable and cell) worked like the Internet - what if I could get to Vodaphone, Verizon or Comcast content from my Cingular TTUP (Thing That Used to be a Phone). Who wouldn't win in this ideal world ?
Second - I seem to have given up on Performancing (for Firefox) - I'm now using the native Roller editor - AFAIK it does everything Performancing does and I no longer have to modify posted entries to add tags and remove unwanted breaks.
Third, Sun announced the fifth release of Java ES (official blurb here). Pat and Don cover some of the Identity Management Features and Alexis has the full skinny.
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Jan
15
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According to the Mozilla wiki - the next major version of Firefox (due the end of this year) will support both OpenID and Microsoft's Cardspace. The wiki doesn't explain exactly how OpenID (or Cardspace) will be integrated or more importantly what the user experience will be - which is what I'm really interested in (as a user). It will be interesting to see if Mozilla support will increase the adoption of OpenID.
For me, Id. Management built in to the browser is a big deal and I'll probably be looking at some of the beta builds to see how it evolves. Getting the user-experience right will be important if Mozilla really want this to compete with Cardspace (which looks very slick, IMO).
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Jan
10
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We (Sun) seem to be on a roll this year with launches, announcements and awards (and we're only 6 days in). And as of today the stock is at a 4-year high. One accolade that I've been waiting to blog is that Forrester has just ranked Sun as a leader in Inetgration-Centric BPM Suites (IC-BPMS). Sun's entry into that market came as a result of the SeeBeyond Acquisition a couple of years ago and subsequent integration of that technology into our existing software portfolio (such as Portal and Application Server).
Combined with our leadership in Identity Management and Web Services - this is a great platform on which to build our "Middleware 2.0" business.
It's great to be able to blog about something work-related for a change - hopefuly I'll be able to do more of that this year.
I think it's going to be a fun year.
