http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2001/0 3-19hailstorm.asp
Remarks by Bill Gates, HailStorm Announcement, Redmond, Wash., March 19, 2001
"Passport is achieving very significant critical mass. All Hotmail users, of course, get a Passport. There are many third-party Web sites that we are working with to make sure that they get people to use Passport as part of their authentication. In fact, that was part of the relationship we had with people like eBay and many others, is to say, let's get Passport, so you only have to log in one time, and you get exactly what you want there. So it's our goal to have virtually everybody who uses the Internet to have one of these Passport connections"
I agree that Hailstorm/Passport is not generating the degree of analysis/discussion that it might - I was very suprised that there were not more comments about Passport and Hailstorm in the responses to Katz' recent articles about Microsoft's success.
Hailstorm seems to be about XML and SOAP driven by (in a business sense) Passport authentication. Is something like Zope (www.zope.org) an open source project which should be better developer supported in response?
My mistake - sorry.
Perhaps a more direct link to the rationale of open core hardware development is this link (http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/why.shtml).
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"Passport is achieving very significant critical mass. All Hotmail users, of course, get a Passport. There are many third-party Web sites that we are working with to make sure that they get people to use Passport as part of their authentication. In fact, that was part of the relationship we had with people like eBay and many others, is to say, let's get Passport, so you only have to log in one time, and you get exactly what you want there. So it's our goal to have virtually everybody who uses the Internet to have one of these Passport connections"
I agree that Hailstorm/Passport is not generating the degree of analysis/discussion that it might - I was very suprised that there were not more comments about Passport and Hailstorm in the responses to Katz' recent articles about Microsoft's success.
Hailstorm seems to be about XML and SOAP driven by (in a business sense) Passport authentication. Is something like Zope (www.zope.org) an open source project which should be better developer supported in response?
My mistake - sorry. Perhaps a more direct link to the rationale of open core hardware development is this link (http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/why.shtml).