I tried to sell XAD, the Active Directory workalike I wrote 2002-2006, to Sun. Would’ve integrated nicely with SunDS (a big part consisted of SLAPI plugins). Was in touch with Jonathan Swartz, but no dice. Sold it to Novell instead. Ironically ended up porting SLAPI to eDirectory to integrate it.
I didn't know you tried at Sun. Obviously I was a big XAD fan :-).
I pushed XAD internally. But I didn't have the pull needed.
Sun not acquiring XAD was a big mistake.