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Gartner: Sun IAM & Open Source - STRONG POSITIVE

Via Tatsuo Kudo - Gartner recently published their latest vendor rating for Sun . The overall picture is, well, sunny, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'm particularly pleased with their ratings in the areas of Identity and Access Management and Open Source - 'Strong Positive' * for both, which means that OpenSSO and OpenDS must be doubly blessed * Strong Positive: Is viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions: Customers: Continue with planned investments. Potential customers: Read More...

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 4:04 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments

Filed under: Sun, opensso, gartner, opensource

links for 2008-05-17

Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:31 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments

Filed under: Identity, Microsoft, Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, Sun, solaris, Links, opensso, gartner, authentication, opensource, LDAP, xtech, ad, solaris10, infrastructure, t2000, bigadmin, fedora, kerberos, t1000, bbc, analysis

OpenSSO - Download, Evaluate, Deploy!!!

A few days ago I was IMing with a guy that works for one of the large systems integrators. They have an opportunity to deploy OpenSSO with a large customer. They particularly want OpenSSO, rather than, say Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1, as they need some of the new features developed over the last few months, in advance of the upcoming Federated Access Manager 8.0 release. The SI discovered OpenSSO, found that it met the needs of their prospective customer, evaluated it for the specific requirement Read More...

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 5:22 PM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments

Filed under: blogwatch, opensso, opensource

CDDL as a middle way

In a recent blog post , James McGovern reckoned that my " perspective on CDDL is somewhat insular and indoctrinated ". As I was wondering how to reply to this, there was some discussion on the OAuth mailing list on the merits of different licenses. I posted this to the list this morning: As you survey the landscape of open source licenses ( http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical ), you should also consider whether CDDL ( http://opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php ) gives you what you're looking Read More...