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
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In the case of Oracle, though, the recession has given customers reason to pause when it comes to buying or renewing Oracle. These people, it seems are opening the door to fully paid-for open source, instead of just dabbling with the free version at the edges of their infrastructure or getting by without paying the support fees.
Just read an article titled “Oracle facing ‘worst’ quarter in 15 years?” over at the Channel Register. I couldn’t help but smile when I read the paragraph above. I know a great open source identity product with the best freakin’ technology in the world and the lowest TCO — Check it out!
What’s less than 1.5MB, SAML2 compliant and allows for super lightweight federation between an Identity Provider and a .NET Service Provider application? Yup . . . you guessed it! The .NET version of our game changing Fedlet. My .NET nerd friend and colleague, Giuseppe (also known as Gui), has just blogged about an updated prototype of the .NET Fedlet for people to try.
The key benefit of the Fedlet is that it’s an appliance killer. Yup. I said it. An appliance killer! How you ask? Well the key reason we get requests for an appliance is because customers are searching for a simple way to enable partner federation with little effort. This is due to the fact that they want as little overhead as possible when trying to onboard a new partner.
Well, if you ask me having to maintain a federation deployment and infrastructure is still too high of a baseline and implies cost, cost, cost. The Fedlet is truly light and requires no hardware, maintenance, upgrades or license. That’s right. I said no license. When you buy OpenSSO Enterprise you can provide as many Fedlets as you want to partners at no additional cost. In fact, Fedlets can also be enabled for multi-partner federation. Partners are covered under your OpenSSO license and can receive support at no extra charge. How’s that for impacting Total Cost of Ownership?
The Fedlet will be officially supported in OpenSSO Express Build 8, which will be available July 2009.
I am very excited to announce that the OpenSSO Feature Release Schedule is now available on wiki.opensso.org. The coolest thing about this schedule is that we are releasing product every three months!!!! Every build listed in this schedule is also supported by Sun, so if you put it in to development or production you always have the option to buy an OpenSSO Enterprise license or subscription to receive support and indemnification. Pretty cool stuff! Check out the schedule by clicking the image below.
