Sun announces OpenID support

This week is the start of JavaOne, Sun Microsystem’s conference on all things Java and with it comes an announcement that Sun will be supporting OpenID.

This is really telling news as Sun was one of the key companies to spearhead the Liberty Alliance initiative around federated identity a few years ago. Support for grassroots technologies like OpenID mean that Sun is continuing to expand its offerings in identity. This is great news for OpenID as well as Sun’s customers.

An interesting point in the article is that all of Sun’s 34,000 employees now have OpenID’s. The OpenID server they are using is based on their OpenSSO server they have been working on for quite some time. Now Sun employees can login all over the web on OpenID enabled web sites. Sun is working on ways to OpenID enable their sites as well (of course this usually takes a bit longer no matter the company).

David Recordon is presenting at JavaOne this week about OpenID so the timing is right to get a lot of people really fired up OpenID. Knock’em dead David!