Sun Releases Identity Management to Open Source

Thanks for picking up our announcement, Miko. Here are some useful links for anybody interested in finding out more about OpenSSO:

• OpenSSO Project Page


• OpenSSO FAQ


• Downloadable binaries, source etc.


• Relevant entries from my blog - these are entries directly relating to OpenSSO - anything on Access Manager, Federation and Identity categories should also be useful, if you're looking for more information.


• There is an OpenSSO IRC Channel - #opensso on the freenode network - IRC server irc.freenode.net.

The open source community is not a trash bin for the products you can't sell.

Best regards,
Clinton

;-)

The open source community is not a trash bin for the products you can't sell.

The open source community is not a trash bin for the products you can't sell.

Dude, that was weak point, even as a joke.

Selling "comments" was never our business model. And we didn't lose $800 million dollars with our business model. In fact, we actually MADE money by doing something that people value. Crazy!

There's a lot I wish Sun was doing that was of value to me (their customer).

Clinton

The open source community is not a trash bin for the products you can't sell.

For some products where there are clearly existing leading solutions already in open source - indeed open sourcing your own product may not make sense. However, I'm not aware of many enterprise SSO projects - this one might do well.

There are a few enterprise SSO open source solutions in existance. One popular one is JA-SIG CAS
www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/

Its an open source SSO developed by institutions of higher education, but its used by universities, non-profit organizations, governments, and corporations worldwide.

There's also JOSSO, PubCookie, CoSign and some others (though I'll admit we don't deploy them here so I'm not sure how "enterprise ready" they are)

The open source community is not a trash bin for the products you can't sell.

Best regards,
Clinton

I'm glad someone saw the happy face. ;-)

Seriously though, I hope the best for SUN, they're a "cool" company, and if all we had was IBM, Microsoft and HP....the world would be a pretty boring place. YAWN.

That said, I think SUN is seriously misguided right now regarding both Open Source Software and Java. And I'm not seeing a lot of hope.

Cheers,
Clinton

As we are all technical representatives, and share our issues amongst our shared experiences.. I find this statement offensive. We as a community should welcome the chances to open the solutions or at lease be a part of the solution.

I am glad that Sun has decided to open the development/technology to this very important and critical feature for all of us professionals to get more involved, extend and perhaps market ourselves. If you have not worked with distributed systems, SOA, or federated Portals you have no idea how important this feature truly is.

I first looked at this product when I generated a federated Portal which linked A National BEA Portal to 50 other individual state portals using BEA and Sharepoint Portal and features of SAML 2.0

I am very glad to see, such a pivotal enterprise component, opened to individuals who may effect the future direction, or build the future products to solve our problems.

I am very happy to have tools from the Java Architecture Sig and Apache and all the rest of the great developer community when I need to solve problems, but we should welcome this all products and companies that offer the general development community to get involved with the solutions, and help build them as well.

1. FREE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY FOR SUN - if we are willing to get involved
2. An OPEN SOLUTIONS THAT WE CAN USE - if we decide to use it

Tony McClay