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Competition Heats Up In Enterprise Software

Oct 4th, 2011
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I haven’t blogged here for awhile, and being honest there is extraordinary change happening in our industry that anything I posted here could need to be re-written. In the meanwhile, the business of enterprise software is coming under intense pressure as I imagined it would as cheaper and more robust applications and services come online. [...]

My Thoughts on IdAM for 2011

Jan 4th, 2011
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Happy New Year, everyone! It’s been a couple months since my last post, so I thought I’d better get with the program and keep fresh updates coming. In addition to a few other goals of mine for the new year, which I’m sure a lot of you have as well, writing more about IdM and [...]

Oracle Open World 2010 Wrap-up

Oct 4th, 2010
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It’s been a little over a week since OOW, and finally getting back into the swing of things. I should say up front that while I spoke at Oracle Open World, this was not a general session like VMworld, but instead I spoke from the VMware booth at Oracle Open World. Not only was it [...]

Automated Refresh of Oracle Data with EMC at VMworld

Aug 27th, 2010
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Do you want to learn how VMware manages Oracle Data and Oracle Identity Management middleware with EMC and VMware technologies? Are you curious how VMware rapidly builds new Oracle OID and Access Manager environments with it’s own products? I will be in San Francisco at VMworld next week presenting “Automated Refresh of Oracle Data” during [...]

I don’t blog about politics

Sep 18th, 2008
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But today I’m going to jump into the fray, but this is probably the only time I will do so before we have a new president in office. I was astounded by the repeated attacks by Obama & Co. on McCain for saying that “the fundmentals of the economy are sound.”  What a laughable semantic [...]

Back in the air

Jul 14th, 2008
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I’ve been working from home for six weeks until today, and it’s been awesome to be able to spend so much time watching Molly grow and develop into the little person that she is.  So it’s with mixed emotions as I get back on the plane today and head back to “work” in the Bay [...]

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