Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate

Superpat postet here that there is now a new opensso extension that enables opensso to be an information card relying party. Patrick Petit (pictured) who wrote this extension uses the xmldap library to process the xmltoken. Great. Note to self: be carefull when changing the xmldap codebase. Don't break this opensso extension. Another (simpler) SUN access manager login module is described here . I am glad that Patrick improved my demo-grade login module to opensso quality. Thanks you.

Marc Puverel at ActivIdentity emailed me today to point out that ActivIdentity provides an online service for 4TRESS evaluation. As Marc says, it's all in the docs : ActivIdentity provides an online service that you may use to evaluate the Sun OpenSSO integration with ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server. In such case make sure your platform has access to Internet, then you can use the following settings: 4Tress URL Endpoint: http://66.126.185.111:9090/4TRESSSoap/services/Authenticator-11 4Tress

Marina Sum (who must be just about the busiest tech author at Sun Developer Network these days!) has co-written an article with Michelle Cope, of Sun's ISV Engineering team, on integrating Sun Java System Access Manager with ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server . The article shows how you can use Access Manager's session upgrade feature to protect particularly sensitive resources with the one-time password (OTP) authentication schemes in 4TRESS. What is particularly interesting about this integration