Q: What is the difference between "Sun OpenSSO Enterprise" and "Sun OpenSSO Express"?
"OpenSSO Enterprise" corresponds to a commercial build, that is released every 12 - 15 months and has undergone extensive automated testing and manual testing by Sun QA Engineering. "OpenSSO Express" builds are released every 3 months and receive extensive automated testing and moderate manual testing by Sun QA Engineering.
- "OpenSSO Express" builds are stable, but "OpenSSO Enterprise" benefits from more rigorous testing. For "OpenSSO Enterprise", more deployment scenarios are tested and additional performance tests are conducted.
- Customers can avail support from Sun for both "Sun OpenSSO Express" and "Sun OpenSSO Enterprise", but patches/upgrades are provided for "Sun OpenSSO Enterprise" only. With "OpenSSO Express", the fixes are made available in one of future express builds - which may include new features built since the last express release.
- Upgrade path for "OpenSSO Enterprise" is available, where as no upgrade path is provided between one "OpenSSO Express" build and another. Similarly, there is no upgrade path provided between "OpenSSO Express" and "OpenSSO Enterprise".
- Both "OpenSSO Express" and "OpenSSO Enterprise" guarantee backward compatibility with a prior commercial release - but backward compatibility is not guaranteed for new features added in Express releases. These new features are appropriately detailed in release notes.
-Rudy-
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