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July 23, 2008

Sun Microsystems Intros Sun OpenSSO Express for the OpenSSO Project

Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) has 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 an open source, identity management project, providing single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities.
 
Backed by support from Sun, OpenSSO offers customers the choice of deploying the latest OpenSSO releases to help address their web access management or federation challenges “right away,” rather than looking forward to the next product release, according to company officials.
 
Officials said that the new versions of Sun OpenSSO Express will be released approximately every three months, enabling organizations to have early access to the latest technologies available in the OpenSSO community.
 
Both for the new or existing customers with a Sun Java System Access Manager, the
Sun Java Identity Management Suite or Java Enterprise System license or subscription, Sun OpenSSO Express will be available at no additional charge.
 
Mark Herring, vice president of marketing for Software Infrastructure at Sun Microsystems, commented that 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.
 
“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,” said Vince Blanchard, director of architecture and new technology at Medavie Blue Cross.
 
He added: “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.”
 
“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.” said Jeff Cortley, vice president for Subscriber Data Management Business Division at Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert).
 
He also said that by taking advantage of the OpenSSO project, his company is able to leverage the most current and “innovative” identity and federation features for the Datagrid solution.
Anshu Shrivastava is a TMCnet Contributing Editor

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