SunONE, Liberty Alliance, .NET (was Re: [cobalt-users] What's this?)

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> Not that I would ever argue with someone with an email address of
> @sun.com, but I always had considered Sun's championing of the
> Liberty Alliance as the closest direct competion to m$ .net.
> 
> Can you explain in more depth tomorrow??

Sorry, I'm not going to rewrite what's already available online, but in a
tiny nutshell, the Liberty Alliance would provide alternative services to
Microsoft's Hailstorm/Passport.  Liberty would be part of the SunONE
platform, in the Identity and Policy Services "block."

http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunone/liberty/
http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunone/

The key difference between .Net and SunONE is that each part of the .Net
solution is an _application_ from Microsoft, whereas in SunONE (which can
be drawn in the same block diagram), each part is a _service_ that could
come from any "open" vendor (one who publishes specifications for all
protocols, APIs, etc).

Please check the Sun website for issues like these -- there are _reams_ of
info there that will give far more detail than I can (or will).  I'm not
always up on the latest info releases, etc., but the website is always
up-to-date.

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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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