Sun's acquisition of Waveset Technologies is complete. Waveset will become part of Sun's Software organization and will bring secure identity management capabilities to the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System.

Waveset's software is designed to automate the processes that govern access to enterprise systems and data while reducing the cost and complexity of identity management.

Waveset's products will extend the Sun Java Enterprise System capabilities by centralizing and automating the management of entities (such as employee, customer and partner identities) to devices and RFID tags, across and between enterprises, on multiple platforms such as those from HP, IBM, Microsoft and Sun. Waveset's products include:

• Waveset Lighthouse Provisioning Manager, an automated provisioning solution

• Waveset Lighthouse Password Manager, a self-service password management solution

• Waveset Lighthouse Identity Broker, an identity profile management solution

• Waveset Directory Master, a directory management solution

Waveset's products will be integrated with Sun's current Identity Management offering, JavaTM System Network Identity Services, which includes:

• Sun JavaTM System Directory Server
• Sun JavaTM System Meta Directory Server
• Sun JavaTM System Identity Server
• Sun JavaTM Desktop System
• Sun Java CardTM technology

The above listed server products were formerly branded as SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE).

"Provisioning is an important piece of the identity management puzzle," said Jamie Lewis, chief executive officer and research chair of Burton Group. "But as a piece of the puzzle, provisioning must work well with directory services, access management, federation and other identity management infrastructure technologies. Customers want an integrated solution, and with its acquisition of Waveset, Sun is working to address that need."

Sun will bring the founders of Waveset to Sun. Mike Turner, formerly chief executive officer and founder at Waveset, will be leading product efforts under Stephen Pelletier, vice president of Network Identity, Communications and Portal, who reports into Schwartz. Mark McClain, formerly president and founder at Waveset, will be vice president of identity management marketing.

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