Attention Sun IdM Customers - "What's Your "Plan B"?

Attention Sun IdM Customers - "What's Your "Plan B"?

This is what Sailpoint says about SUN Identity Manager, its customers and the solutions they can offer to these customers. Interesting read.

It's always sad to see SUN Technologies dying.

Match the following: SUN Products get New Names under the Oracle Umbrella

I have read this on Oracle site which was showing the latest names given to all the SUN products. Check it out

My old team at SUN is no more

I learn't that recently on the first week of January, the whole team of SOA/BI was removed. All the resources were let out in RIF. That was so unfortunate to know. I am sure everyone would find wonderful jobs again.

Also I hope Oracle keeps the wonderful suite of IAM products of SUN going.

Is the SUN setting?

I still can believe if its true that IBM would acquire SUN Microsystems one of the world's best companies. I am a technology guy, do not understand much of these business gimmics, however is it for this that someone struggles so hard to make a brand help the world by their open source products etc and then shrink the company and sell if off???

Its harldy a few years back SUN was more than $30B company and now its hardly $3B, why? Is it someone's strategy to bring SUN down and buy them? What is the problem? Or is it that SUN's strategy of business has flaws?

I wonder if tomorrow IBM or whoever would ...

1. Sell the SUN Identity Suite/JES?

2. What will happen to SUN PS?

3. What will happen to the Open Source initiatives?

At least as a person who loves the products and as someone who respects SUN, I would not appreciate this. The management should have taken enough steps to keep the brand up and glowing, rather selling the shop.

A must read - "Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up"

The first few lines may not be of interest for many, however the entire article is an awesome read. Go ahead and read it.

One does - Remaining follow

If I am not wrong, the concept of Compliance manager was first started by Aveksa. Unfortunately they were a little late to the market and in the mean while Sailpoint already pitched in. Now we have one more big player ... guess who ....... its none other than Sun Microsystems.

They recently launched their Compliance Manager product. I think I will be able to do a comparative study soon and publish to my blog readers.

Open SSO from SUN

May be I am one of those last guys in the world who is talking about this. However I was wondering about a simple concept. How long will Sun be a charity organization?

An update on ViDT

Today I received a comment on my previous post on ViDT.

"Is VIDT available in Market or from Sun? Could you provide some more detail about VIDT?"

The answer would be ViDT which was previously known as a VIP was the IP of Neogent. This tool makes the implementation of the organizational Identity framework much easier and thus faster. As this tool started achieving popularity, SUN acquired Neogent. Now this tool is used by SUN PS folks to implement the framework faster. This is not available outside for anyone else. SUN has kept it for self :-)

Metaview deprecated - SUN Identity Manager 8.0

The best thing I feel SUN developers did was they removed the Metaview feature. This reportedly had couple of bugs and I was once caught by them :-(

SUN Identity Manager 8.0 is released

SUN Identity Manager 8.0 is out

For all the enthusiasts - come download and experience the amazing product

A brief overview of this release:

Sun Identity Manager 8.0 is the latest version of the Sun Identity Manager product offering with expanded Role support, enhanced reporting capabilities, and updated resource adapter and application server support. This update improves upon the industry-leading Identity Manager 7.1 solution with:

# Role Enhancements

• Role life cycle management can require approvals on Role creates, edits and deletes, and Role changes can be applied to all assigned Users.
• User-to-Role life cycle management improvements enable support for future and temporary Role assignments.
• Default Role types including Business Roles, IT Roles, Applications, and Assets are now provided to encourage best practices with regards to Role management.
• Business Roles can contain roles required by all, conditional for some, and optional (by request and optional approval) for others. A Business Role designer can define coarse grain access, while delegating to the user or a manager the ability to fine tune the access within the scope of a Business Role.

# Enhanced Reporting with Data Exporter

• Manager operational data can be made available for use by other processes and applications.
• Data held by and flowing through Identity Manager can be periodically exported to a customer-managed data warehouse or third-party business intelligence and reporting tools.
• Exported data can be used to answer historical questions regarding 'Who had access to a system, and who approved that access?'. It can also be used to provide reports on operational behavior over time, such as 'Provision Operations by Resource' and 'Workflow Approval Response Times'.

# Attribute Configuration

• Extended, queryable, and summary attributes can now be configured for roles as well as users.
• The new extended attribute configuration supports specification of value syntax (STRING, INT, DATE, or BOOLEAN), whether the attribute can have a single or multiple values, and a text description for the attribute.

# Other Notable Updates

• UNIX resource adapters now support SSH connections using private/public key pairs for authentication to managed resources.
• Service Provider user password changes will be checked against the password policy configured on the user directory.

# Supported Resource Additions and Updates

• Exchange 2007 (New)
• Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) (New)
• RSA SecurID 6.1.2 (Updated)
• Siebel CRM 8.0 (Updated)
• Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Applications 12 (Updated)
• HP OpenVMS 8.3 (Updated)

# Supported Application Server Updates

• Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 (GlassFish v2 UR1, 32-bit and 64-bit)
• Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)
• Oracle Application Server Standard Edition 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)
• BEA WebLogic Server 10
• JBoss Application Server 4.2

# Bug Fixes and Platform Support Updates

For more information about the features in this release, see the Identity Manager 8.0 Release Notes or the Identity Manager documentation set.

Using Kerberos to Authenticate a Solaris 10 OS LDAP Client With Microsoft Active Directory

This article describes how to configure a Solaris OS client to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Active Directory) for authentication and naming services.

Download the PDF and read on.

8 - The wait is over

Yes the wait is over. Very soon the latest version, 8.0 of Identity Manager will be out. Keep checking for updates on the same.

Open Source at SUN - Identity Management

The Identity Manager IDE has been open-sourced. As a side note, this also means that the Eclipse
plugin is officially out there. The versions of IdM that are supported include 6.0 (sp3/sp4), 7.0, 7.1.x.x, 8.0 (after the release).

Is NetBeans Plugin Supported by SUN?

Good Question isn't it?

Answer:

Sun only officially supports the Netbeans plugin through standard support tickets and only if you have a support contract for Identity Manager.

The picture of a person whom I adore

Yes, it is Whitfield Diffie the inventor of the Public Key Cryptography.

Still hanging around with any version below 7?

Folks looks like the next version of Sun Identity Manager release is not too far. If you are still working with any version below 7? then you may wait to upgrade your skills, directly to ?????? Ahaaa ... wait for the release and the number.

Acquisitions Galore

The entire world believed that 2007 was the year for all major acquisitions and truly it was. However, it seems like 2008 has more in store. The year started with the two major acquisition announcements.

SUN Microsystems announcing its intent to acquire MySql

Sun has recently announced its intent to acquire MySql. Day after day SUN is becoming a complete shop, high performing servers to wonderful softwares. One thing to wait and watch would be how would they bundle MySql? Currently SUN already provides PostGRE Sql with its OS.

The best online information regarding the same would be Jonathan's Blog

Oracle's acquistion of BEA

Oracle has announced that it is acquiring BEA systems. Its paying $21/share value which is 25% more than the current value, i.e. 16th January Closing price. This is another great move by Oracle.

We have to wait and see what else does 2008 has in store.

Sun Identity Manager is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities with varying impacts

Three Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities may allow local or remote unprivileged users the ability to execute unauthorized scripting code in a user's browser when that user clicks a link to Sun Java System Identity Manager. In addition, a further vulnerability may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to inject unauthorized HTML code into a user's browser when that user clicks a link to Sun Java System Identity Manager. Two additional vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to redirect the browser to unintended remote sites or to inject frames containing data from unintended sites.

For more information

NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment Ready for Action

I shouldn't be doing the talking here ... so .... click

Sun Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Web Access Management

Image Source: Gartner's Website

The picture does the talking. SUN's Access Manager is listed in the leaders quadrant in the Gartner's magic quadrant for Web Access management. Sun Access Manager is a key product in the SUN Identity Management Suite.

Give a read on what experts have to say ...

1. Gartner

2. SUN

3. News Link