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Competing with brains, not brawn
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Competing with brains, not brawn
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.
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]