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July 23, 2008 - Sun announced new open source initiatives at this year's OSCON, including OpenSSO, an open source single sign-on solution for enterprises, a joint initiative with Joyent to provide a free and open infrastructure for social networking applications, and Sun Web Stack, the first OS-independent Web 2.0 applications stack.

Sun at OSCON

Sun director of Web technologies Tim Bray talks about the new initiatives Sun is announcing at OSCON.

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Joyent Cloud - The Open Social Infrastructure

Sun and Joyent now offer developers up to 12 months of free web hosting to develop and run tomorrow's social apps today. The offering was announced in conjunction with an eight-city Social App Tour to offer training on how to develop web-scale Social Apps on the Joyent Cloud. Training will cover the architecture and design of social applications, and how to use the partnership tools to identify bottlenecks in the infrastructure, and optimize the code for maximum scalability.

Powerful Sun servers running OpenSolaris combine to give the Joyent Cloud unlimited scalability and storage at the best price available. "Social applications are one of the fastest growing software categories and the momentum will continue with the promise of monetization offered by social networking sites with memberships that number in the millions," said Juan Carlos Soto, VP of Global Market Development of Sun Microsystems. "Sun can now provide developers access to Sun's technology and expertise in building large-scale applications, with Joyent helping them deploy on a highly scalable and reliable platform."

Joyent CEO David Young and CTO Jason Hoffman talk about how their Sun server infrastructure has made their Joyent Cloud successful.

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The OSCON Crossroads

The annual event gathers open source developers, experts, and IT managers together to advance open source code and its adoption across worldwide computing. The conference is often called "the crossroads of all things open source" because it attracts people from all walks of life who support open source communities. Now in its tenth year, OSCON expects to attract well over 2,500 people to sessions focused on business apps, databases, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, security issues, and more, including mobile applications.

Support for OpenSSO Express

Daniel Raskin talks with industry RedMonk analyst Michael Cote about Sun's new support model for OpenSSO.

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Sun has extended its enterprise-class support to OpenSSO, the open source code base from which Sun Access Manager is derived, and adds indemnification for the code. Sun support also includes OpenSSO Express builds, early access versions of the next Sun Access Manager release that have been fully tested and certified by the OpenSSO community.

Contributing Code to OpenSSO

Sun's engineering team works with the OpenSSO community to make it easy to manage single sign-on solutions for the enterprise. Some contributions become part of OpenSSO source code, others become OpenSSO Extensions, which build on the technology in OpenSSO.

Sun Web Stack

Sun announced Sun Web Stack, a fully supported, integrated, enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack that works with the Solaris or Linux operating systems. Sun Web Stack provides open source standards-based software most commonly needed for Web-tier applications.

In addition, Sun announced it is open sourcing the core components of Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy technologies under a BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license. The Web and Proxy source code will be available in Q3.

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"Sun's goal in open sourcing core technology in our Web and Proxy server is to give developers more flexibility and help them achieve faster time to market," said Karen Tegan Padir, Sun vice president of engineering software infrastructure. "Enterprises and developers can now standardize their development and production environments on open source technology through Sun's enterprise-grade Web Stack and Sun's Web and Proxy servers.

Sun will provide product version control for its Web Stack across multiple operating systems to ensure that applications developed for one operating system can be deployed on another, and so developers will always have the latest, most complete technology solutions the community has to offer. Enterprise support is planned to be available for Solaris in Q3, Linux in Q4 2008 with Windows and other OS support to follow.

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