Freed of Executive Constraints, Jonathan Schwartz Blogs on Threats from the Competition
With his tenure in Sun’s executive suite behind him, Jonathan Schwartz exercises his new found liberty to disclose two incidents involving Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and their respective threats to sue Sun for patent infringement. Schwartz relates how Sun successfully played the countersuit card, staving off the threatened litigation.
Interim Release of Sun OpenSSO Enterprise
Sun OpenSSO Express 8 is an interim release of Sun OpenSSO Enterprise. This release allows users to try out new features without having to wait for the next full OpenSSO Enterprise release. OpenSSO Express Build 8 is available with multiple new features, including one-time password capabilities, Fedlet support for .NET applications, MySQL user data store, Entitlements Service, task flow for federation with SalesForce.com, an administration console (beta), plus much more.
Presentation by Daniel Raskin, Sun’s Chief Identity Strategist 
Sun is hosting a free webinar on OpenSSO Express. Set for Wednesday, August 19th at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST / 19.00 CET, the 40-minute presentation to be given by Daniel Raskin, Sun’s chief identity strategist, will focus on the latest version of OpenSSO and how it can help secure a data center’s core resources regardless of whether they are internal, external or in the cloud. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session so that specific listeners’ questions can be addressed.
To Provide Mobile One-time Password, Fedlet Support for .NET and Rapid Salesforce.com Federation
OpenSSO is the only access control solution that includes access management, federation and secure Web services in a single product. OpenSSO Express Build 8.0 will provide mobile one-time password. This feature is expected to allow two-factor authentication out-of-the box without the need for a third party product, and OpenSSO Express 8.0 will be the first access management solution to do so. This new version, whose download is expected to be available soon, also includes Fedlet support for .NET applications and rapid salesforce.com federation.
Version 4.3 of OpenMQ was made available as a free download in December. This new version of the enterprise quality, production ready, scalable messaging server allows a new http-based Universal Messaging Service to be used to access OpenMQ from a browser using AJAX, along with .Net, Python, Ruby, and others. OpenMQ 4.3 also includes new platforms (AIX, Oracle 11g, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008), a new installer, and additional Samples for things like talking to HermesJMS and STOMP.
Tune into a Webinar presentation this coming Friday, January 9th at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET / 19:00 UTC (GMT), where speakers Ed Bratt and Linda Schenider of Sun will talk about the new Universal Messaging Service and show examples of its use from AJAX, C# and Python.
