Is the rivalry between Sun's Liberty Alliance and Microsoft's Passport missing the larger issue: Net identity?
An Australian software company has entered into the authentication battle between Sun and Microsoft, claiming to have released the world’s first Java-interface to Microsoft.NET My Services. But is this a legitimate contender, or, as some suggest, a pretender?
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.
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.
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.
Is Sun is on the right track by emphasising single sign-on for enterprises first--and letting consumer identity services gestate at their own pace?
Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Microsoft has backed away from many of the more grandiose uses once envisioned for Passport, its online identification system.
Sun Microsystems will release new software that takes advantage of the Liberty technology for simplifying the process of signing on to multiple Web sites.
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