Via Tatsuo Kudo - Gartner recently published their latest vendor rating for Sun . The overall picture is, well, sunny, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'm particularly pleased with their ratings in the areas of Identity and Access Management and Open Source - 'Strong Positive' * for both, which means that OpenSSO and OpenDS must be doubly blessed * Strong Positive: Is viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions: Customers: Continue with planned investments. Potential customers:

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

...I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)!!! I know - Gary Glitter has fallen long and hard, but it's still a great song and appropriate for today - Gartner has placed Sun Java System Access Manager in the leader quadrant of their Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management, 2H07 [PDF] . I happen to think that they have under-rated us somewhat on our completeness of vision, but I can't argue with the rating on ability to execute. One thing worth mentioning is that one of the 'cons' listed for Sun - "Sun