Openomics: innovation drives value

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based standard, developed by the OASIS consortium, for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information. SPML came in response to the need of unifying and automating the management of user accounts and rights inside a corporation. Indeed, with the multiplication of IT systems --logistics, accounting, customer management, human resources, you name it-- inside the companies we work for, the old (manual) ways of dealing with users --Dear Admin, please create account for new employee... Dear Admin, please give me access right for the folder/document... who doesn't remember writing one of these emails?-- could not keep up, responsible for too much incorrect data, leading to information leaks and productivity loss.

Today in its version 2.0 --version 1.0 had limited number of operations, limited scheme for user information and simpler using/integrating--, SPML has enabled the software industry to develop interoperable solutions of identity management, for the various IT systems themself to communicate and propagate changes in user information and rights. Examples of commercial solutions that are SPML-compliant include Sun Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Manager. We believe that it is essential that Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) applications today support advanced identity management operations beyond single sign-on --on that topic, check out this OpenSSO integration work.

Based in Moscow, 1C is a leading Russian software vendor, with 1M+ customers for their ERM software suite 1C:Enterprise and 18.7% market share in the Russia ERM market --making it the top #2 vendor in 2008 per a recent IDC study. 1C is particularly known as the maker of the most popular enterprise accounting system 1C:Accounting sold in the CIS region; about every company in Russia runs a copy of that software, I have been told. With such a large installed base, 1C has evolved to become the center of a large ecosystem and network of 5000+ partner integrators, resellers and software vendors. Some of which being Sun Microsystems partners as well…

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ISV Engineering is hosting the 5th Israel OpenSolaris User Group Meeting in the Sun Israel Development Center (SIDC) on November 25th, 2009. Join us for drinks and pizza as well!

YOU'RE INVITED 5th Israel OpenSolaris User Group Meeting Date : Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Time : 18:00 Location :  Sun Microsystems Ackerstein Tower A 8th floor 9 Hamenofim, Herzliya Pituach Israel Agenda : Project Crossbow Overview of new release Solaris 10 10/09 OpenSolaris 2010.03 preview Group discussion Parking : at Ackerstein building. Bring parking ticket with you to stamp it.

To register, please RSVP to iosug@grigale.com or leave a note on the LinkedIn IOSUG Group.

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Did you ever have a performance problem and not know where to start looking? Well, who didn't? In such a situation, it is important to perform a proper monitoring of the system and resist the immediate urge to blame the processing power --the storage subsystem is often overlooked. Now that I spoiled the suspense giving away the answer, give me 5 minutes to illustrate this with a typical example. Why typical? Because this is a case I meet quite often with startup companies who rightly concentrate on their core business and not on their IT infrastructure --that's what we are here for.

One of our partners, Squid Solutions, recently reported a performance problem with an Oracle database; they had engaged our team as part of the Sun Startup Essentials support program. Squid Solutions makes a software called Nautilus that performs intensive analytics on database systems, whatever their kind or size. They call Nautilus an SQL Knowledge Engine because it models data and business knowledge, and then automatically generates SQL code to execute the data processing tasks. Nautilus is sold as a service performed by Squid's engineers as Customer Intelligence projects.

So, Squid Solutions had purchased a brand-new Sun Fire X2250 server --quad-core Intel Xeon with 4 GB of RAM, running Solaris 10--, and was experiencing poor performance --much lower than their old system of previous generation-- when executing a read-n-write intensive workload on the database. When I first got on the server, something jumped right to my eyes…

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Come join the local ISV Engineering team for a special session on Java FX.

YOU'RE INVITED Technology Transfer Day Date : Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Time : 09:30 - 13:00 Location :  Sun Microsystems Ackerstein Tower A 8th floor 9 Hamenofim, Herzliya Pituach Israel Agenda : JavaFX: The New Platform For Rich Internet Applications - Simon Ritter, Sun Microsystems JavaFX: Creating a Smooth User Experience for Mobiles - Roy Ben Hayun, Sun Microsystems Parking : at Ackerstein building. Bring parking ticket with you to stamp it.

To register, please RSVP to isve-toi-israel@sun.com.

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Users of icalds: Sun Calender Server 7, released last week as part of Sun Java Communications Suite 7, brings native support for CalDAV (as defined in RFC 4791) and iCal extensions (as defined in RFC2445bis). The icalds script should thus no longer be needed to access your calendars on a Sun Calendar Server once your company or provider upgrades to release 7. I am interested to hear from people that are going through the migration. Is iCal support matching expectations?