Sun Interoperability Resources

• Main Sun web page for interoperability resources, offerings, and benefits

• Open source resources:

  • Web page for the open source Tango project

  • Project Tango: An Overview (PDF), which provides details on the components and functions of project Tango

  • Links to Tango endorsements from developers, media, and partners endorsing WSIT

  • Metro web page

  • Links to videos that show interoperability with .NET 3.0

  • Java EE and .NET Interoperability book by Sun Press

  • Blogs by Arun Gupta, Sun Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Applications, which provide information about how to invoke a Web Service deployed on GlassFish by a Microsoft Vista client and vice versa and how a reliable WSIT endpoint can be invoked from a WCF client and vice versa

  • Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO), which provides core identity services for implementing transparent single sign-on when integrating diverse web applications hosted on a variety of platforms

• Solaris resources:

  • Interoperability information for the Solaris 10 OS, including information about interoperability features built into the Solaris 10 OS, links to Sun BluePrints, Linux interoperability information, and more

  • How to Quickly Install the Solaris 10 1/06 OS, a how-to guide that describes how to install the Solaris 10 OS on a Sun supported x64 or x86 system

  • Transcript from Expert Exchange Forum: Achieving Datacenter Interoperability with the Solaris 10 OS

• Sun and Microsoft interoperability resources:

  • Download page for IPMItool 1.8.8 for Microsoft Windows 2003 with Sun IPMI System Management Driver Support, which provides the open source IPMItool application built natively for Microsoft Windows 2003

  • Sun ODF Plugin 1.1 for Microsoft Office, which enables Microsoft Office to read and write Open Document Format documents

  • Better Together -- How Sun Products Interoperate With Microsoft Products Today (PDF)

  • Transcript from Expert Exchange Forum: Sun Does Windows: Q&A on Sun/Microsoft Interoperability

  • Moving Windows NT Applications to Sun Fire x64 Servers (requires registration)

  • Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication, Part 2: Sun Java System Access Manager and SharePoint Portal Server 2003, an article on Sun Developer Network (SDN)

  • Matrix that shows which Sun Ultra 20 option cards are qualified with Microsoft Windows and provides links to their drivers

  • Documentation for Sun Blade 8000 Series Modular Systems, which includes how to install and configure Microsoft Windows or Linux on Sun Blade 8000 Series Modular Systems

  • Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 Installation Guide, which includes a section called "Installing Identity Synchronization for Windows" that describes Sun best practices for getting Sun Java System Directory Server to share information and passwords with Microsoft Active Directory