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links for 2008-05-17
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• Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost
  Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better."
  (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu)
• Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008
  Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years.
  (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun)
• BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate a Solaris 10 OS LDAP Client With Microsoft Active Directory
  This document describes configuration of a Solaris client to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Active Directory) for authentication and naming services.
  (tags: ad authentication bigadmin kerberos ldap microsoft solaris solaris10 sun windows)
• XTech 2008 - BBC Tech Refresh and Identity - Brendan Quinn And Ben Smith » SlideShare
  Presentation from XTech 2008 in Dublin, about the BBC's plans to reinvigorate its technical platform and to create new user management services. Slides 38 and 39 are my favourites :-)
  (tags: bbc identity infrastructure opensso xtech)

New Access Manager articles on BigAdmin
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Normal blogging service was disrupted somewhat by last week's DIDW and IOS. Among many snippets in my 'to blog' pile, here are links to a couple of recent 'hands-on' articles from Sun's BigAdmin site:

• Installing, Managing, and Using Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Identity Manager on the Solaris 10 OS - Jonathan Gershater, Suveer Chainani, Abdi Mohammadi, Jan Vanhaecht - exactly what it says on the tin - full of Solaris 10 zonal goodness.
• Single Sign-On Using Sun Java System Access Manager 2005Q4 and Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2 - Manikandan Chandrasekaran - a quick start guide for getting Access Manager and a couple of policy agents up and running.

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