* Microsoft outlines identity management roadmap * Tech Ed: Microsoft to kill 'Kodiak' code name * CA goes after patch management * CA unveils WLAN management * Management vendor Oculan closes doors * VeriSign acquires wireless services provider Jamba
So many conferences going on this week it’s hard to keep them straight. Microsoft is spewing news out of its Tech Ed conference in San Diego, such as its entire roadmap for identity management. It’s also shifting away from the “Kodiak” codename – startling news for all those Microsoft codename-watchers in the world (and you know who you are), but there’s a good reason behind the move. Microsoft outlines identity management roadmap http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525msid.html?net Tech Ed: Microsoft to kill ‘Kodiak’ code name http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525techkodiak.html?net
So many conferences going on this week it’s hard to keep them straight. Microsoft is spewing news out of its Tech Ed conference in San Diego, such as its entire roadmap for identity management. It’s also shifting away from the “Kodiak” codename – startling news for all those Microsoft codename-watchers in the world (and you know who you are), but there’s a good reason behind the move.
Microsoft outlines identity management roadmap
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525msid.html?net
Tech Ed: Microsoft to kill ‘Kodiak’ code name
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525techkodiak.html?net
CA goes after patch management
Meanwhile, Computer Associates is using its Las Vegas show, CA World, to pump out patch management strategies and a product for managing wireless LANs. And today I’ll be in New York to check out the CeBit America show; I’ll be sure to let you know if anything good happens there.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525capatch.html?net
CA unveils WLAN management
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525cawlan.html?net
Management vendor Oculan closes doors
Oculan, whose purple boxes are used to manage and secure networks at small and midsize companies, is fading to black.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525oculan.html?net
VeriSign acquires wireless services provider Jamba
VeriSign Monday said it has agreed to acquire Jamba AG, a Berlin wireless content and services provider, for $273 million in cash and stock.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0525verisacqui.html?net
Today on Layer 8
As we count down the days to a three-day weekend we pass along the tale of a gentlemen that managed to break out of proxy prison, deliver some hygiene news from Down Under, plug one of our favorite non-Network World columnists, and gasp at stupidity. Check it all out here:
