Sun Microsystems Announces Sun OpenSSO Express
Industry's First Enterprise Support for Open Source Identity
Management and Web Single Sign-on Software
PORTLAND, Ore. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) July 23, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced the availability of
Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and
indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project.
OpenSSO is the world's largest open source, identity management project,
providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access
management, federation, and secure web services capabilities. For more
information and to download OpenSSO, visit: http://wiki.opensso.org.
New versions of Sun OpenSSO Express will be released approximately every
three months to provide fast moving organizations with early access to
the latest technologies available in the OpenSSO community. New or
existing customers with a Sun Java(TM) System Access Manager, Sun
Java(TM) Identity Management Suite or Java(TM) Enterprise System license
or subscription will receive Sun OpenSSO Express at no additional
charge. Support from Sun's technical team is available in three
different levels: standard, premium and premium plus. To access Sun
OpenSSO Express, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/products/access_mgr/get.jsp.
“Enterprise software customers are
increasingly choosing open source software because it gives them greater
flexibility, access to cutting-edge technology and faster time to
market. Over the past year and a half, we've seen tremendous interest
and participation in the OpenSSO community from hundreds of companies
around the world,” said Mark Herring, vice
president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. “Sun
is delivering Sun OpenSSO Express in response to demand from users of
OpenSSO, who would like to leverage Sun's expertise in providing
enterprise-grade support and indemnification for open source software.”
With more than 700 members, the OpenSSO project is attracting large
enterprises with extensive identity infrastructures, who want an open
source, identity management solution with Sun's support and
indemnification. OpenSSO is now backed by Sun's world-class support,
giving customers the choice of deploying the latest OpenSSO releases to
help address their web access management or federation challenges right
away instead of waiting for the next commercial product release.
“Medavie Blue Cross provides personalized
service to more than a million members in Canada and due to the needs of
our business, we couldn't afford to wait for the next commercial version
of Sun's federation and access management software, so we joined the
OpenSSO community and started using the OpenSSO Express product, which
was a great decision because we've received full support and
indemnification from Sun. Since then, we've implemented the OpenSSO
version of the product and took advantage of its features. This approach
has helped us keep pace with our needs and it improved our time to
market. Plus, we were able to have access to Sun's most innovative web
access management and federation offerings in open source,”
said Vince Blanchard, director of architecture and new technology,
Medavie Blue Cross.
“We are using Sun OpenSSO Express as an
extension of our Datagrid Suite, which provides application developers
with a single point of access to all their application data from
multiple, heterogeneous data sources. The integration with Sun's
federation technology enables Datagrid users to create secure, federated
mash-ups of partner content,” said Jeff
Cortley, vice president, Subscriber Data Management Business Division,
Alcatel-Lucent. “By taking advantage of the
OpenSSO project, we are able to leverage the most current and innovative
identity and federation features for the Datagrid solution.”
About the OpenSSO Community
Founded 18 months ago, the OpenSSO community includes members from
companies like Audi, Medavie Blue Cross, Telenet and France Telecom.
Started as a Sun Microsystems-sponsored open source project, the OpenSSO
community provides core identity functionality, such as: single sign-on,
access management, federation and secure web services in a single Java
technology-based distribution. The community also bases their
development on enterprise-focused standards, including SAML 2.0, XACML
and WS-Federation, in addition to creating extensions to OpenSSO through
sub-projects around other protocols like OpenID and Information Cards.
Sun's Identity Portfolio
Sun technology manages billions of user identities worldwide for more
than 5,000 organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, that rely on
Sun's identity management portfolio for provisioning and secure access,
ongoing compliance and federation. Sun's identity management portfolio
is designed to streamline and simplify the process of managing user
identities across a variety of applications. Sun received an overall
positive(1) in Gartner's Vendor Rating report from June 2008 and Sun's
open source and developer initiatives received a strong positive(2). For
information on Sun's identity management portfolio, visit: www.sun.com/identity.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the web at http://sun.com.
About Gartner's Vendor Rating(1)(2)
The Vendor Rating is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused
with permission. The Vendor Rating is an evaluation of a vendor as a
whole, not just on its position within a single market. It is based on
Gartner's assessment of the vendor's vision and execution for a product
or service, relative to Gartner's analysis of clients' requirements. It
is not intended as a comparison relative to competitors in the market.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the
Vendor Rating, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner disclaims all warranties,
express or implied, with respect to this research, including any
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, “The
Network is the Computer,” Sun Java System
Access Manager, Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Java Enterprise
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or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
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