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Sun Microsystems today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the just-published 1H06 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant report. Gartner places companies in the "Leaders" quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. "We are gratified to have been placed in Gartner's "Leaders" quadrant for user provisioning," said Sara Gates, vice president of Identity Management at Sun Microsystems. "Sun's commitment is to offer identity management solutions that let companies make security a seamless part of their business in ways that help them unlock value and make money." Reprints of Gartner's 1H06 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant report are available on the Sun Web site at its web site. Sun's User Provisioning capabilities are part of the Sun Java System Identity Manager software, the industry's first converged user provisioning and meta-directory solution. Java Identity Manager includes all the capabilities necessary to manage identity profiles and permissions in a manner that streamlines operations and enhances enterprise security. The Sun Java System Identity Manager software is a component of the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite that helps businesses manage, protect, store, verify and share identity data throughout the enterprise and across extranets. In addition to Identity Manager, the suite includes Identity Auditor, Access Manager, Federation Manager, and Directory Server Enterprise Edition. More information about the Suite and Sun's user provisioning capabilities can be found on the Web at its Web site. The Sun Java System Identity Management Suite is part of Sun's broader Java Enterprise System, an open, standards-based software system that delivers a core set of industry-leading shared enterprise network services as a single, integrated entity on a predictable release cycle. It serves as the strategic underpinning of Sun's software strategy. For more information on the Java Enterprise System please visit: its Web site.