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Sun announced today that it will offer enterprise support and indemnification to new and existing customers interested in the technologies available in the OpenSSO Project via a new offering called Sun OpenSSO Express. You can read the press release here and you can download Sun OpenSSO Express here.

What does this mean? It means that OpenSSO is now backed by Sun's support team, 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 version of the product.

 There's a lot of excitement around this news. Check out the following links:
- Podcast with Michael Cote of Redmonk here.
- An entry by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn here. 

Other blogs:
- Daniel Raskin: http://blogs.sun.com/raskin/entry/sun_announces_opensso_express
- The Identity Management Buzz Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/idmbuzz/entry/announcing_sun_s_opensso_express
- Michael Teger: http://blogs.sun.com/docteger/entry/here_comes_the_express_opensso
- Rajesh R: http://blogs.sun.com/rajeshr/entry/sun_announces_opensso_express_support
- The Aquarium Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/opensso_express_sun_support_for

With Joyent, we today announced free Web hosting for Facebook and OpenSocial developers. This is really a good deal as developers get immediate access to a powerful, world-class infrastructure based on Sun and Joyent technologies without having to spend any money until their applications gain momentum. Here is the press release. Here and here are more information on the program. In conjunction with this offer, we will embark on an eight-city tour (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, New York and Austin/Dallas) in the U.S. to offer hands-on training to developers who want to write more effective applications that can scale to millions of users.