On the occasion of its one-year anniversary of Oracle’s purchase of Oblix, Oracle has achieved a bragging right. Namely, Oracle announced on May 8 that Gartner has plugged its Oracle Identity Manager tool into its Leaders Quadrant in the 1H06 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant report. Gartner tempered Oracle’s joy, however, by giving Oracle a grade of “Cautious Optimism”—the “likely highest possible grade,” according to Ray Wagner, research vice president at Gartner. “Integration continues,” Wagner said in his notes on the product, which is a component of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite. In a short time, it has amassed a very strong management team and IAM technology portfolio. Adding its January 2005 PeopleSoft acquisition for HR management, Oracle is positioning itself to be the ‘mover and shaker’ in the IAM market.