Sun To Intertwine Storage and Identity

This is really intriguing me. I'd like to know how far this goes...

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,108884,00.html

Open Source Identity Management Map

Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.safehaus.org/map/

BMC and Identity Management for .NET

On thursday, BMC plans to give a webinar (a three hour one at that) on their new .NET based Identity Management offering. At first glance, it seems to be their current IdM offering with a layer of web services over it, and perhaps a toolkit of some sort in .NET to leverage it. Of course, that is a complete guess based on some facts I gathered from reading a few posts here.

Anyhow, I wonder how that plays with MIIS, AD and ADFS. Also...how will the Microsoft folks take it?