From: Jamie McCarthy <address@hidden>
To: XNS Talk <address@hidden>
Subject: Liberty Alliance gives up
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,740753,00.asp
December 2, 2002
Liberty Alliance Waves White Flag at Passport
By Peter Galli and Dennis Fisher
A growing rift among members of the Liberty Alliance authentication
project is placing the technology's future in question. At the core
of the problem is exactly where to target the single-sign-on
technology in the face of stiff and growing client-side competition
from Microsoft Corp.'s Passport service.
Officials at the Liberty Alliance's founder and chief sponsor, Sun
Microsystems Inc., last week went so far as to concede defeat to the
Passport authentication service on the Windows platform.
"There is no way we can compete with them there. They have that
market tied down really tight," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive
vice president at Sun's software group, in Menlo Park, Calif.
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