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Added to Sun’s Identity Management Portfolio

Sun announced the availability of a new, fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine as part of OpenSSO Express 9, and a next-generation directory proxy server as part of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2. The entitlement enforcement engine supports enterprise deployments and provides mass-scale extranet deployments with a complete off-the-shelf, standards-based solution that can externalize authorization for more than 100 million users. The new directory proxy server proactively maintains up-time as activity increases with a “global index” to help easily distribute and balance loads - based on factors such as any identity attribute or based on a traffic distribution algorithms.

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New Release Significantly Increases Performance Both in Read and Write

OpenDS 2.0 is now available along with the supported version Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.0. OpenDS community manager and architect Ludovic Poitou, who is also a Sun senior software engineer, announced the release of the LDAPv3 compliant Directory Service that is written entirely in Java. Among the many enhancements and features are a graphical administration panel, an administration connector and support for binary transfers.

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James Gosling on Java in a Post-Oracle-Sun Acquisition World

James Gosling unburdens himself on several issues involving Java in a wide-ranging interview with eWEEK’s Darryl K. Taft, addressing among other topics Java vs. Google and what’s the outlook for Java in the Oracle business plan.

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Commercial Version Also Promised

The OpenDS (Open Directory Service) development team announced the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate (RC) 1 at the 2009 JavaOne Conference. This is the first release candidate for OpenDS 2.0 and offers a number of new features beyond those in OpenDS 1.2.0, which was released in February 2009. The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release.

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Sun Identity Source Offers an Approach

The white paper “Guide to Open Source Identity Management” explores the advantages of open-source identity software and provides a look at Sun Identity Source, the open-source identity initiative, which currently includes OpenSSO and OpenDS.

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Accelerate Projects Without Overhead of Large Hardware Environments

Sun’s GlassFish Portfolio, OpenSSO, and OpenDS software are now available via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to help easily build and secure cloud applications and enable users to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. The availability of Sun’s open source software infrastructure on Amazon EC2 is the first phase of a multi-phased program to offer full support and indemnification for Sun’s portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms, including the Sun Cloud.

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