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.

• Sun GlassFish Portfolio is an open source, high-performance Web platform, based on the application server GlassFish

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise is a single solution for Web access management, federation and Web services security

• Sun OpenDS Standard Edition is a comprehensive next generation directory service, based on LDAP and DSML standards.

OpenSolaris and Sun's MySQL database are already available through Amazon EC2 and will soon be available on the Sun Cloud, Sun reports.

Running Sun open source software on Amazon EC2 eliminates infrastructure acquisition costs and hardware requisition delays prior to beginning a proof of concept or development effort. Companies can leverage the cloud for testing and troubleshooting integrations, saving the time and expense of installing and configuring Sun software in their labs. In addition, they can easily and cost effectively "rent" the compute power needed to complete a proof of concept and focus on deploying key services with minimal barrier to entry, thereby lowering total cost of product acquisition and speeding time to market for Sun supported production implementations.

"Expanding our relationship with Amazon Web Services will allow Sun to build out our software ecosystem and service the cloud market momentum for our clients," said Rick Farnell, director Global Alliances Sales, Sun Software Line of Business.

Terry Wise, director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services, commented, "We're pleased that the combination of Amazon EC2 and Sun can provide additional options to our mutual customers as well as extend software solutions to ISVs and SIs."

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