By mark.wilcox on July 11, 2007 3:25 PM
My friend Jon Udell is diligently trying to figure out whether there is an increased amount of crime in his little town in New Hampshire.
Another twist to this is the ranking of cities with crimes. Dallas, unfortunately has had the distinction of being #1 on that list by the FBI for the past few years (almost a decade). Which has caused lots of turmoil (including I believe at least one firing of a police chief).
I've always felt that this wasn't a correct assessment - in particular since what the stats seemed to show was Dallas had a much larger number of property crime in comparison to other large cities like LA. And that it was much lower than those cities in violent crime.
In today's Dallas Morning News (may require registration) they are running an article discussing how after a review of the data being sent to the FBI for compilation of the list - they realized they had not taken advantage of all of the rules - meaning that Dallas in effect was over-reporting.
Which just goes to show you - in so many situations - everything seems to come down to Garbage In/Garbage Out.
By mark.wilcox on July 11, 2007 5:08 PM
Earlier this week we published an Oracle By Example set for both Oracle Virtual Directory and Oracle Access Manager.
OBE are simple, graphically rich, self-paced Web-based tutorials for using Oracle products.
Editor's note - I didn't like the phrase "finally published" which sounds harsher than I intended. I had been anxious to see it out in the wild for so long - I think caused the "finally" to get in there. :)
By mark.wilcox on July 23, 2007 3:52 PM
Peter Kinev asked in a comment the following:
"Can you provide any commentary on Oracle (original) IdM + Xellerate +
Oblix components in complete Oracle Identity Management system
infrastructure? I see a lot of duplication, unnecessary complicity,
very difficult integration."
My personal answer - There is some duplication between 'legacy' Oracle IdM products and our aquired products however, most customers find they get much more benefits than they had with our legacy identity & access management applications. If they did not - we wouldn't be growing at the pace we have and would not be recognized by the analysts at leading the pack both with current product mix and our roadmap.
If you would like a picture of where we are and where we are going - I would suggest that you read this document. Additionally you can ask your account rep to setup a one-on-one to discuss future direction in more direct manner. Finally - if you are having particular trouble with deploying/testing one of our products (I assume *something* had to prompt the question :)) - please drop me an email at mark.wilcox at oracle.com and I will direct you to whom can help you best.
