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Thursday, September 27, 2001
http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article/0,,3411_892541,00.html Battle Brews Over Authentication By Thor Olavsrud Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) and 32 well-known, industry-leading companies raised their standard Wednesday in what is rapidly shaping up to be the Internet's newest battle ground: authentication systems. The most noted industry leader that was excluded from the new consortium, though, was Microsoft Corp., (NASDAQ:MSFT) which last week fired the first salvo when it put out a call for a "federated" authentication system -- one in which competitors are allowed to license Microsoft's Passport system for their own use....
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