What's behind open-source ID push?

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March 03, 2006, 12:27 PM — IBM and Novell have thrown their weight behind an open-source identity management initiative known as the Higgins Project, prompting speculation about why the two large companies would support an obscure technology that to date has no products or workable code. Microsoft, meanwhile, is moving ahead with its competing InfoCard technology, which will be integrated into Windows Vista.

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