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daily link  Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Sun Launches Authentication, Access Control Products
Targeting corporations and telecomm providers, the package competes with software only solutions from a very wide mix of vendors. The primary competitor is, as you'd expect, Microsoft and Passport. An Enterprise Edition, managing some 10,000 individuals, sells for just under $150,000. A bulked up version for providers bumps the user limit to 250,000 and the price to a few dollars shy of $1 million.

Sun releases suite of authentication software, services. Sun Microsystems shipped a package of software, hardware and services that can be used to manage the identity of users on a network and set access privileges for applications, services and other resources. [Computerworld

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