Quest Brings The Experts Conference to Europe

Registration has opened for The Experts Conference (TEC) Europe 2009. Formerly called the Directory Experts Conference (DEC), TEC Europe is an important international training event focused on advancing the skills of the most experienced users of Microsoft Identity and Access (IDA) and Microsoft Exchange Server technologies.

TEC Europe for Directory & Identity 2009 will provide advanced education on business-critical IDA technologies, including Active Directory, Forefront Lifecycle Manager (formerly Identity Lifecycle Manager), and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). Identity without Borders: Bringing the Identity Meta System into the Enterprise will serve as the theme and centerpiece for TEC Europe 2009 for Directory & Identity.

I personally am looking forward to this show - it's in Berlin!

Two-factor authentication, two promotions

We have a couple of promotions running at the moment for our Quest Defender product. The first one allows you to register for a token and once you receive it you can try it out on a web page that enters you to win an XBox360. The second promotion is for a "free Defender starter pack" which is 5 hardware tokens, 5 software tokens and a 10 user license valid for one year. Just head over to http://www.quest.com/defenderstartpack if you'd like to take advantage of that offer.

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The Sun sets on Oracle

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.

Talk about a dog's breakfast of identity management products now! I wonder how this will all work out for the customers? Oracle has been getting high marks from the analysts so will the Sun IDM suite go by the wayside? Or, will this only mean confusion for the next 18-36 months? Or both?!

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Reality tour stopover in Paris

The reality tour is taking up temporary residence in the 1er arrondissement in Paris just down the street from the musée du Louvre. Just follow the arrow above to find me - after work of course - either at the "Brasserie de la Bourse" or across the street at "Le Café des Initiés" (with its "accès Wi-Fi gratuit et très performant est disponible en permanence" - yah baby!).

You can follow our personal adventure on my wife's blog over here. In the meantime, hopefully I can keep the baguette crumbs, cheese droppings and slopped wine from gumming up my keyboard.

Back to our regularly scheduled program next week...