Well, my friends, it is time for me to say goodbye. It’s been a wonderful 5 years at Sun. As many probably suspected, I will not be joining the Oracle Identity team.

These past five years have been the best professional experiences in my life. I had a blast working with the Java Enterprise System team and Sun’s systems management team, but nothing beats my experience working with the most talented Identity Management team in the world. Oracle is inheriting THE BEST Identity products available and I wish them luck on their strategy and direction.

Although I’m very happy that this process has finally come to a close, I am sad to see Sun fading away. I believe the environment that Sun fostered was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I appreciate the experience and have tremendous gratitude for all that it offered me.

Since I host my own blog now, I will continue to blog here about everything identity. Also, If you want to keep in touch, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

Nice little customer success story for Identity Manager. Enjoy!

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On the customer front — Express Scripts has deployed Sun’s Identity Management Portfolio to implement a centralized identity management solution that automates provisioning for more than 100 systems based on an employee’s job function or operational role. The solution has created a centralized identity directory that maps multiple corporate identities on disparate systems that are each associated with a single employee.

Here’s a link to the customer success story

You can also read more identity customer success stories here.

Nice video by resident slacker / sales engineer Paul Walker on how the Sun Identity Management suite can complement Sun’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The demo shows how Sun can provide the whole stack from the operating system, smartcards, SunRay thin client device, desktop delivery mechanism and Identity Management (IdM) to offer a complete and secure VDI solution. The products used in this demo include the following (in no particular order) . . .
* Sun OpenSSO Enteprise
* Sun Identity Manager
* Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition
* SunRay Server
* Sun Secure Global Desktop
* Sun VirtualBox
* Sun VDI
* OpenSolaris 2008.11

In our ever expanding effort to grow our open source identity community, Sun now has an open source initiative to support Sun Identity Manager. That’s right, you heard it. Sun Identity Manager (IDM) has moved closer to the world of open source by launching the Identity Connectors Project, a new open-source alternative to Identity Manager’s proprietary resource adapters.
The Identity Connector Project is an open source community focused solely on developing open source resource connectors to work with Sun Identity Manager. One of the biggest hurdles in the world of provisioning is keeping up with the endless cycle of new connectors needed to provision resources. The pipeline for creating new connectors is endless. The Identity Connectors Project eases this pain creating a strong community where Sun, system integrators, customers and even competitors can build open source connectors to work with Sun Identity Manager and other 3rd party products that choose to interoperate with the Identity Connector Framework.
Sign-up for the new project and begin contributing today!

Skip American Idol on March 18 because there is something much more entertaining you can watch! You guessed it! Sun’s Craig McDonald is going to sing, dance and talk about the Sun Identity Manager roadmap and why it is “da bomb” when it comes to identity provisioning. Don’t miss out.
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March 18th, 2009
10:00 PT/1:00 ET