The name of the software suite closely resembles the name of one of its components, Oracle Identity Manager.
[1] After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, they re-branded a number of products that overlapped in function.
[4] Originally, in the 10g and earlier versions, the Java-based portions of the suite ran mainly on OC4J, although some components (e.g. OIM) supported other J2EE appservers.
For the 11g version, Oracle Corporation ported the OC4J-based components to WebLogic.
As of November 2008[update] the software was undergoing Common Criteria evaluation process.