Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come:1. Identity-related acquisitions will slow to a steady pace.The acquisition market for identity companies has been very heated for the past two...
Back on June 2nd, I told Novell to focus on their growing identity management business. Shortly thereafter, Novell's long-time CEO, Jack Messman, was replaced by Ron Hovsepian. Suddenly, it appears that Novell's new chief may be listening.In an interview that most of the world missed, Hovsepian stated that "management services"...
The big news in identity today is that RSA has acquired PassMark security for $44.7 million in cash and stock. I first learned about PassMark when Louis Gasparini who was then the SVP of Internet Transactions at Wells Fargo let me know he was joining a startup. I'd gotten to...
Dave Winer has done a lot of smart technology development, but I'd look somewhere else for ideas about how to fix venture capital. In a much-talked about posting, Winer says the associates, partners and general partners in venture funds who sweep"Web 2.0" is the Friends-and-Family era...
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