Sun Microsystems has launched OpenSSO Enterprise, the replacement for its previous single sign-on offering, Sun Java System Access Manager 7.0. OpenSSO Enterprise incorporates not only identity and access management, but federation and secure web services.

Sun Microsystems’ xVM server virtualization hypervisor has not yet seen the light of day as a commercial product, but the company is continuing to enhance the management tool. Now, the latest version of Ops Center has arrived featuring enhancements for running Solaris-based virtualization.

The Eudora team might have called it quits on commercial aspirations and released the product as open source some time ago, but that doesn't mean you should get the trash bin out just yet.

ForgeRock has announced that Simon Phipps, ex-Sun Chief Open Source Officer and board member of the OSI and OSA, has joined its board as Chief Strategy Officer to develop and communicate the company's open source plans

Zend Framework is designed to help software companies speed up their Web application development. It provides developers with a Windows-based platform. "The philosophy that existing with the pre-release versions is the same as we follow now. But there is a lot more functionality in the version 1.0," said Kent Mitchell, director of product marketing.

This last week, I was introduced to a Linux-based PC that has the potential to out Apple by using a combination of open source software, Linux and Web 2.0 concepts. I revisited another product that I think could free us from image management and enable us to use whatever PC we want, at work or home, safely, with most of the benefits of virtualization and almost none of the penalties.

I propose that Product Management should take a more active role in FOSS, not telling the developers what users need, but teamingwith developers to identify the target audience and prioritize the users needs. If developers can donate their time working on these projects there is no reason Product Managers can’t do the same thing.

"We're creating a Cloud management engine based on the open source deltaCloud project," Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager of Red Hat's Cloud business, told InternetNews.com. "We haven't yet issued a delivery date for that product, but it will be sometime next year.

Oracle is now out with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (OEL)- a week after its base, Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL) was released. That's pretty quick and in my view, one of the quickest turnarounds yet from Oracle with their version of RHEL. Oracle has been releasing its own version of Linux with OEL, based on RHEL since 2006 and they've been updating OEL as Red Hat updates RHEL.