horus_the_cat
Wilson's persistent fascination with the occult and hidden potentials of "consciousness" (which he accepts as being a sort of fixed thing in all of history)--and his relative willingness to accept without much criticism the authoritarian elements of a huge swatch of that milieu--does lend itself to this explanation.
OTOH his tendency to resort to epicycles in explaining his theories (which are usually postulating, rather than explaining, something) is more the sign of an undisciplined thinker. On edit, Wilson seems like the hippie answer to J.G. Ballard, whose essay on the "half-educated man" seems relevant for what Wilson stumbles towards. Granted, in the wikipedia era, that's all of us.
Lifeforce is a great movie, though. Definitely better than the book.
More realistically, it's department politics that are going to prevent any sort of migration.
Technically it works... sometimes. Custom shims have a tendency to lead to complications because the API isn't very well-exposed or documented... it was another acquisition product.
Infrastructurally it's an unmitigated garbage fire. Oracle seems to think, e.g., your organization is too stupid (which is true, since you're an Oracle client) to know how to connect to AD from a nix machine or Java application, so the hardware footprint is huge.
It's questionable biz-wise for two reasons. First, because it's sold as a "complete", off-the-shelf solution when in reality it's probably about a dozen analysts working on it full-time for months just to get its biz logic set up, and then a handful for maintenance. Second, because OIM aims to be a institution-wide, one-stop-shop product (which it is* good at), but institutions that acquire it are so large that they're bereft with inter-department politics and policies that make using it firm-wide difficult.