The actual link is http://www.cloudpath.net/, for anyone else wondering why their website was only a link to MySpace :)
Matt Barber Network Analyst / PC Support Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oakes, Carl W Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] idEngines selling assets Thanks for the tip to www.cloudpath.com. We had just started to talk to IDEngines about AutoConnect when things went bad with the company. Needless to say, I was bummed, not only for our existing RADIUS server, but another handy tool wasn't going to be available to us. :( Autoconnect was OEM'd from CloudPath, so at least that product is alive and well. I've received a demo and price quote. (There might even be some familiar names over in cloudpath these days). If you are an autoconnect customer, (or were looking to be one), hope is not lost. Thanks again for the link! Carl Oakes Senior Network Architect Networking & Telecommunications Services / IRT California State University Sacramento (916) 278-5551 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Gogan Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] idEngines selling assets Funny you should mention that. We had been looking at AutoConnect and saw a lot of potential there, when we were informed by one of the engineers with our network switch vendor that we should take a good look at a company called Cloudpath (http://www.cloudpath.net/). You'll find they have a product called XpressConnect that looks AMAZINGLY (cough, cough) similar to AutoConnect. I think you'll find that the Cloudpath folks were actually the engine (no pun intended) behind AutoConnect. In fact, we had found a bug with AutoConnect in our evaluation of that product and when we had talked to the developer with Cloudpath, he recalled being notified of that bug from the idEngines folks and dealing with the fix for it. In our evaluation/assessment of Cloudpath XpressConnect so far, we have found them to offer everything we were getting with idEngines AutoConnect, but with even faster turnaround in fixes and feature enhancements and outstanding pre-customer support. Indeed, they worked with us to move what we had set up in evaluation of the AutoConnect platform over to their XpressConnect system so we didn't have to start from scratch. Eliminating the middle man here appears to have been a good decision. Again, check out http://www.cloudpath.net/ and see if it doesn't look familiar. -- Jim Gogan Director, Networking University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Scott Himes wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > > Thanks for the frank report from your perspective. It's helpful for your > customers to know as much as possible about what's going on, even if > it's not the "official" word. Have you heard anything else from the > support side? Do you have any idea how long support will be up and running? > > > > For the list: how many of your institutions are currently using > AutoConnect and would be affected by idEngines potentially going away? > Also, does anyone know of a product that is similar in function to > AutoConnect? I'd hate to have to replace it, but it sounds like we ought > to be prepared for that possibility. > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > Scott Himes > > Director | Network & Telecom Services > > Biola University > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian McMahon > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] idEngines selling assets > > > > Quoth "John York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > We just got a letter from lawyers saying that idEngines "has made a > > > decision to begin a process to sell its assets." That's too bad, since > > > they had a great product. Don't know what it means about support... > > > > I'm not on the business side of the house and I can't speak for the company, > > but I can tell you that, at least for the moment, support operations are > > continuing. I'm still employed, the telephone hotline and support website > > are both still operational, and we're answering technical questions to the > > best of our ability. > > > > What happens down the road is entirely up to whatever entity ends up in > > control of the idEngines assets. Obviously, we all hope that the acquirer > > is someone who sees the value in our product, and will continue to develop > > and support it. As you can imagine, this is of considerable personal > > interest to me as well. > > > > In the meanwhile, I strongly recommend that any customers who are not on the > > current (and in my experience, very stable) 5.0.5 code make plans to get > > there soon. Anyone on pre-5.0 code, please be sure you read the part in the > > release notes about LICENSES first. Proper prior planning prevents panicky > > support calls (or something to that effect). > > > > To reiterate, I am only able to speak as an individual technical staff > > member, and not for the company as a whole. And I do wish I had something > > more positive to tell you all. More news will no doubt follow. > > > > -- > > Brian McMahon, Member of Technical Staff, Identity Engines > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://support.idengines.com/ > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
