ForgeRock is an ISV with origins in the business and technical community at Sun Microsystems that is basing its business exclusively on open source products. One project the three-month-old company already is working on is the former Sun open source project Open Web Single Sign-On (SSO) Project, referred to as OpenSSO. Simon Phipps, former Sun chief open source officer and now chief strategy officer with ForgeRock, told internetnews.com that his new employer plans on supporting and extending the OpenSSO platform into a complete access management solution.
(Get More Information . .)
Oracle's April 2010 Critical Patch Update includes sixteen new fixes for the Sun product line, including Solaris, Sun Cluster, Sun Convergence, Sun Java System Access Manager, Sun Java System Communications Express, Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun Ray Server Software, and Sun Management Center. Sun product users can now expect security bug fixes to be addressed through this quarterly release unless a severe critical flaw is found. Then, a Security Alert will be dispatched.
(Get More Information . .)
Analyst firm Kuppinger Cole decreed the OpenSSO initiative and its project OpenSSO Fedlet as Best Innovation, recognizing that it "has provided a lean solution for the Identity Federation."
Awarded its trophy during the European Identity Conference (EIC) 2009 held earlier this month, OpenSSO was one of six winners in a half dozen categories that earned praise.
(Get More Information . .)
Firefox, combined with the Live HTTP Headers and HackBar add-ons, is a powerful troubleshooting tool, writes Jim Faut in a three-part article co-authored with Rick Palkovic that covers "Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 1, Introduction; Part 2, Single Sign-On and Policy Protection; and Part 3, Cross-Domain Single Sign-On."
(Get More Information . .)
The OpenSSO team has released a roadmap toward its next enterprise commercial release of the identity management software. Beginning this coming April with the anticipated Express 7 release, all the way through to the commercial release of OpenSSO Enterprise 8.1 expected in March of 2010, the roadmap offers details on upcoming features and progress.
(Get More Information . .)
News and Solutions for Users of Solaris, Java and Oracle's Sun hardware products
Just the news you need, none of what you don't –
42,000+ Members – 24,000+ Articles Published since 1998
