In an effort to change the current landscape of the portal market, Sun Microsystems has introduced the industry's first portal server solution with fully integrated, security identity management capabilities that streamline the security and management of enterprise portals.
The Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) Portal Server 6 - formerly iPlanet Portal Server - will be deployed on Linux and Windows 2000, in addition to the Solaris Operating Environment, greatly extending the portal's multi-platform capabilities.
The portal also supports the market's leading J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application servers: BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere and Sun ONE (formerly iPlanet Application Server).
Lodewyk de Beer, consultant SEAME (South Europe Middle East Africa) Architecture Strategy Team at Sun Microsystems SA, comments that the Sun ONE Identity Server, embedded in the Sun ONE Portal Server, enables integrated secure identity management systems, web single sign on, policy and access control, service provisioning and unified user management.
"Providing identity management as a core capability of the Sun ONE Portal Server meets our customers' demand for portals that are secure, scalable and flexible," he says.
The Sun ONE Portal Server 6 empowers companies to steer away from vendor specific offerings. Thus enabling them to deploy the portal server on any of the three J2EE application servers, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere and Sun ONE Application Server, within heterogeneous environments.
The Sun ONE integrated identity management, however, counters inherent security identity problems that can be caused by heterogeneous environments.
Twenty eight iForce partners have announced their endorsement of the Sun ONE Portal Server, including, RSA Security, TogetherSoft, YellowBrix and Yahoo!.
Yahoo! and Sun recently announced an alliance to increase corporate productivity by creating an enterprise portal environment that combines business critical applications within personalised information.
According to Gartner's Portal Product Magic Quadrant, Sun has been positioned in the leader quadrant for two consecutive years, 'Big Change Evident in 2H02 Horizontal Product MQ, May 2002'. While researchers, The Radicati Group says the Sun ONE Portal Server holds the number one spot for market share, 'Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2001-2005'.
The Sun ONE Portal 6 is scheduled for release in August, while support for Windows and Linux is scheduled for the first half of 2003.
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