Back on June 2nd, I wrote a ZDNet blog entry telling Novell to "focus, grasshopper" on their growing identity management business over their open source distraction. Now I see that their CEO and CFO have been ousted by the board. Will we see identity elevated at Novell as a result? I hope so.

Phil and I have been busy blogging over on ZDNet, so I'm hoping everyone is reading over there.

In the meantime, I wanted to give an update on the upcoming Digital ID World conference:

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During the conference, over 40 organizations including Regions Bank, Federal Mogul, Raymond James Financial, Motorola, Nortel, Equifax, Sprint, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Wells Fargo, Webex, Hersheys, Burton Group and many others will share their experiences in planning, deploying and managing identity projects and operations. Attendees will hear first hand how to address topics such as using identity to achieve regulatory compliance, gaining end-user adoption of authentication mechanisms, succeeding with provisioning and securing networks with identity-based network access control. Discussions will include pitfalls to avoid, increasing the probability of success and reducing schedules and budgets.

"The quality of presentations at Digital ID World is unparalleled," said Sara Gates, vice president of Identity Management, Sun Microsystems. "Digital ID World provides a great interactive forum that drives industry discussion around all things identity, and helps IT professionals solve the issues they are facing."