MWD - Blog Archive for March (2008)
There were 3 blog postings during March (2008):
A privacy-enhancing acquisition for Microsoft
Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 5th March '08
More acquisition activity in the identity space
Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity.
Sxip was early to...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 12th March '08
Just like buses ...
... you're waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it's IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Encentuate's size is indicative of gap-filling motivations...
Neil Macehiter, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 12th March '08
