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OpenSSO - a Web Access Management Leader
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Another year, another Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management. Where 2007 saw Sun Access Manager entering the leader space, close to the leader/challenger 'cusp', this year Sun OpenSSO Enterprise is solidly in the magic leader quadrant.

As Daniel mentions, we saw great growth this last year, so it's puzzling that they list 'flat growth' as a 'caution' for us. Then again, that is the only caution, so I guess they had to find something negative.

On the positive side, they list our market leadership, full range of features, leadership in open source identity, the strength of the OpenSSO community, our innovation around the Fedlet and much, much more. Pick up the report, courtesy of Sun, and see for yourself.

Gartner: Sun IAM & Open Source - STRONG POSITIVE
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Via Tatsuo Kudo - Gartner recently published their latest vendor rating for Sun. The overall picture is, well, sunny, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'm particularly pleased with their ratings in the areas of Identity and Access Management and Open Source - 'Strong Positive'^* for both, which means that OpenSSO and OpenDS must be doubly blessed

* Strong Positive: Is viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions:

• Customers: Continue with planned investments.
• Potential customers: Consider this vendor a strong choice for strategic investments.

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)

I'm the Leader, I'm the Leader...
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...I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)!!! I know - Gary Glitter has fallen long and hard, but it's still a great song and appropriate for today - Gartner has placed Sun Java System Access Manager in the leader quadrant of their Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management, 2H07 [PDF]. I happen to think that they have under-rated us somewhat on our completeness of vision, but I can't argue with the rating on ability to execute.

One thing worth mentioning is that one of the 'cons' listed for Sun - "Sun does not support ADFS/WS-Federation in its federation tools" - will be addressed in the next release - Federated Access Manager 8.0 - and is already in OpenSSO. So, if your existing infrastructure leans to the MS side, but you need world-class web access management, federation, identity web services and more, scoot on over to OpenSSO and take a look.