{"id":193,"date":"2007-05-07T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/sun-does-openid"},"modified":"2007-05-07T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T16:48:37","slug":"sun-does-openid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/sun-does-openid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun does OpenID!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-awaited, Sun today announced they are supporting OpenID<\/a>. Yet another blue-chip company to add to the growing list of OpenID endorsers, which also includes AOL, Microsoft, Symantec and VeriSign. What a little URL can do …<\/p>\n

And Sun is putting their actions where they should be:<\/p>\n

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… Sun is offering an OpenID Provider service to its 34,000 employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations, Gerald Beuchelt<\/a> (more about this<\/a> from him) and Pat Patterson<\/a>, who I know worked hard for this.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> Pat writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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…this was a cross-department effort with contributions from (amongst others) the CTO office (in particular Gerry<\/a>, Eve<\/a>, Lauren<\/a> and Hubert<\/a>), SunIT and the OpenSSO<\/a> team. I was on vacation and schmoozing with Liberty in Belgium for most of the past month, so I really can’t accept any credit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for pointing out the other contributors. But, Pat, while you might not have written the code, I think things would not be where they are if you hadn’t done your part a little earlier…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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