eWeek: Liberty Alliance Waves White Flag at Passport

“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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