Re: [Auth]Fwd: Liberty Alliance gives up

[Gary Ellison]

>>>>> " " == Mario D Santana <address@hidden> writes:

 > Hmm.

Well the official response to this is on www.projectliberty.org but to
summarize lets just say the authors of the article seem to have taken
editorial license to an extreme.

 > Begin forwarded message:

>> 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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