CQ2 | Ed Murphy

Probably the best-known Buddhist monastic archeological site in what is now Tajikistan is at Ajina Tepa, which has been diligently excavated and published by Litvinsky and others.  It’s a fascinating site.

Lesser known, and less impressive in size and sophistication if not in location than Ajina Tepa, is the stupa at Vrang, on the Afghan border in the Pamirs. (It’s at 37° 0′ N 72° 22′ E.)

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There are at least a half-dozen types of Catholic religious orders:  mendicants, monastics, canons regular, clerics regular, clerical religious congregations, and lay religious congregations.

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Pamela Dingle from Ping Identity has an insightful post on the identity implications of the newly-approved Oracle acquisition of Sun.

Both companies have identity management businesses but I doubt that these were key to the acquisition. Regardless; in the identity community, everyone’s been waiting to see what Oracle’s roadmap would look like for their collection of identity management products.

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