Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.
Sun and its partners in the Liberty Alliance release the lead-out version of their Web authentication standard, a rival to Passport that's designed to make it easier to sign onto multiple Web sites. Plus, it looks like the war with Microsoft is over.
The Sun-backed group will unveil the detailed workings of their Liberty Alliance specification--leading the way to build "single-sign-on" Web sites and software. Does it stand a chance against Microsoft?
While the Liberty Alliance was developed in response to the Microsoft-specific Passport system, that rivalry could become less significant.
Computing giant Sun Microsystems describes plans for Liberty Alliance, an online authentication service that will compete with Microsoft's Passport.
Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.
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