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Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

By Clayton Donley on July 21, 2008 12:03 PM

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the "meta-directory is dead" and "daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?" discussions... Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July...

Ian Yip Just Saved You 3 Hours - Metadirectories are dead?

By Clayton Donley on July 8, 2008 7:36 PM

You can read the 18+ blog postings covering all of the recent discussions about how dead or not-dead meta-directories really are. Or, you can read Ian's post that summarizes this whole discussion and save those three hours to line-wait for...

Re: Meta-Directories Not Dead (They're Aging)

By Clayton Donley on July 8, 2008 11:50 AM

Some of the points that Matt Flynn raises in this post were addressed in Nishant's reply. However, I wanted to spend a little time on this part of his post: ... There has been a ground swell of apps that...

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...

By Clayton Donley on May 11, 2008 9:25 PM

Dave Kearns has followed up on Kim Cameron's posting from Friday. Kim says that sometimes you need to copy data in order to join it with other data Dave says the same thing, except indicates that you wouldn't copy the...

Re: Talking about the Identity Bus

By Clayton Donley on May 10, 2008 8:20 AM

Kim Cameron of Microsoft makes a pitch for why Metadirectory is still relevant, or at least why data needs to live in multiple places. One key element of this argument is that when combining transactional data with identity data, you're...

Virtual, Meta, and Identity Buses -- Oh My!

By Clayton Donley on April 15, 2008 12:37 PM

Wow. Lots of good discussion lately on both the identity services topic as well as general directory services (meta, virtual, and the like). I'll start with Jeff Bohren's AD as the elephant in the room post. I agree with Jeff...

Will the Real Virtual Directory Please Stand Up?

By Clayton Donley on April 8, 2008 12:26 AM

I was reading this posting from my friend and colleague, Phil Hunt, in which he talks about the ongoing discussion between Dave Kearns and Kim Cameron about the death of meta-directories. Not only is he correct in pointing out that...