A clueless manifesto- July 8, 2008 A big tip o'the hat to Jeff Bohren for drawing my attention to this note from Alex Karasulu of the ApacheDS project. Now remember, he's working on a Directory Server project. Yet he says:The VD Virtual Directory implementations of today like Penrose, are just hacks without a formal computational basis to them. People trying to get a product to market rapidly to sell a company. We intend to enable virtualization eventually with a solid footing in the LDAP administrative model using this concept..http://vquill.com/2008/07/clueless-manifesto.html The role of roles- July 1, 2008 Ian Glazer has just released his first post since signing on with the Burton Group, and it's a good one, about the wrong-headed notion which appears to be taking hold in the market place that roles and role management are needed before provisioning can occur. As Ian puts it:Implicit in the idea that an enterprise cannot attempt user-provisioning because it is not ready for role management is the notion that user provisioning has no value to the enterprise without role management. This is an...http://vquill.com/2008/07/role-of-roles.html |