Don't tell you heard it from me, but it seems Identity Manager 8 is already available for download.
http://blogs.sun.com/IdentityCrisis/date/20080610
I'm
pretty excited about this new release as it finally brings n-level RBAC
support with unlimited types of Roles to the famous Identity Manager
product.
One can now out-of-the-box define business roles, it-roles,
asset roles, profile roles, ... conditionally assign roles to each
other, nest these roles, manually assign any type of roles via approval
workflow, assign entitlements and resources to these roles, assign
identity attributes to them etc ...
Have a play with the product, check out the release notes, and read the updated documentation.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1514.5?l=en
