HCL to acquire key IBM software

I woke up to the news that HCL tech are going to acquire select IBM software products – This is big news IBM already had a partnership with HCL where they would develop the code for IBM – Notes and Domino were among this group.HCL have injected a massive amount of enthusiasm with thier aggressive […]
Joined Up Thinking In Identity & Access Management: WebSEAL and WebSphere Portal – An Integration Pattern

Fantstic new post from the Identity Management Guru (ans all round lovely bloke) – Mr Stephen Swann Joined Up Thinking In Identity & Access Management: WebSEAL and WebSphere Portal – An Integration Pattern Very well put together post on Securing Portal with Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), with some sensible suggestions for approach and useful gotchas. […]
Futher to the Portal 6.1.5 set up

Futher to the Portal 6.1.5 set up – these steps were required from an ORACLE DB point of view to get the DB configured : Grant create session to community Create likeminds user Grant create table to community Grant create view to jcr Grant unlimited tablespace to community and also these grant select on sys.dba_pending_transactions […]
Portal won’t start ??

I have come across a horrible little *feature* that occurs sometimes with WebSphere Portal where the server fails to start and writes absoutely nothing to the log … Just a tad annoying when you are trying to work out why it didn’t start in the first place. Sometimes this is due to a tranlog problem […]