Sun
Shines
Sun
has apparently, European sources report, made a deal with Deutsche
Telecom for single sign-on services for Deutsche Telecom and its
partners for 80 million of their users.
That would be the largest federated management deal ever
and might make Sun’s Liberty standard much more important.
We
assume that Sun will proudly provide the details shortly.
Apparently,
the deal includes both Sun software and hardware.
Sun
is aggressively selling its software on a number of fronts.
It announced today that Korea Freetel had licensed Java
technology from Sun for its mobile data services.
This will support Korean mobile operators and allow them to
complete their transition to the Wireless Internet Platform for
Interoperability (WIPI), the standard mobile Internet platform in
Korea. By April
2005, WIPI will be Korea's official wireless Internet standard.
Sun
also used Jonathan Schwartz’s increasingly frequent blog to note
that Sun salesmen are now being compensated for selling –x86
Solaris even when it’s sold without a Sun hardware sale.
This is apparently part of Schwartz’s aggressive anti-Red
Hat Linux strategy.
(back to top)
