Virtual Identity Dialogue

Oracle Virtual Directory Presentations at Oracle OpenWorld 2008

By mark.wilcox on August 25, 2008 5:28 AM

OOW is coming up and of course I will be there. Besides being able to find me at our booth, I will also be presenting at the conference.   This year I will be presenting at the main conference with...

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Managing Relationships and Entitlements with LDAP

By mark.wilcox on July 3, 2008 7:10 AM

During the upgrade to the new blogging system I got this question via the comment system: "How should relationships be modeled in LDAP? How would you model roles and resources in order to form an entitlement in LDAP? How should...

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Identity Bus - Persistent-Search 2.0

By mark.wilcox on June 29, 2008 9:14 AM

A few weeks ago - Dave Kearns wrote a piece revisiting an earlier discussion between him, Kim Cameron of Microsoft and our own Clayton Donley. The initial question from Kim Cameron was:--"Sometimes an application needs to do complex searches involving...

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OVD FAQ Now In Metalink

By mark.wilcox on June 16, 2008 8:50 PM

One of our tasks for the past fiscal year (Oracle FY is from June until May) was to work on getting my internal FAQ into Metalink.That project is now complete. Many thanks to Irina in support who took care of...

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Answering Outstanding Directory Questions (aka Continuing Education Process for James McGovern)

By mark.wilcox on May 19, 2008 7:40 PM

James McGovern has more questions.  That being said - here are the questions and my answers. 1. There is a lot of talk about leveraging a virtualization layer but no discussion on when it is a better strategy to simply...

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More Thoughts on ADAM

By mark.wilcox on May 7, 2008 4:34 PM

So James has responded back to me on ADAM."I would love to know your thinking on why a database itself can't be exposed via the LDAP protocol? For example, what would prevent Microsoft from allowing SQL Server to be accessed...

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Welcome Clayton Donley To the Blogsphere

By mark.wilcox on April 1, 2008 7:05 AM

Clayton Donley - the founder of OctetString (and Oracle Virtual Directory) and who now runs Oracle Directory Services development team has joined our blog ranks!...

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More on Directory Evolution

By mark.wilcox on March 23, 2008 1:07 PM

This my response James McGovern's questions in his blog. Now if I can just get him to spell my name (Mark) correctly...Though I do have a question for James before I get to my responses:"Why does Microsoft get off the...

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There's More to Enterprise Identity Than Validating AD Passwords

By mark.wilcox on March 17, 2008 9:20 PM

My post on Evolution of Directory Services sparked something from James McGovern. To quote:first:"talks about virtual directories but doesn't talk about how Oracle products should be able to bind to Active Directory without additional licensing" .I don't know how often...

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