What Microsoft's Identity Metasystem Means to Developers
Laurianne McLaughlin (freelance writer)
A multiplicity of identity technologies creates difficulties and complexities for both users and developers. Microsoft's proposed answer to this problem is an identity metasystem--a framework that lets varying identity technologies communicate and interoperate using common standards.
Open Source and Government Systems: GOSCON 2005
Bart Massey, Portland State University
The First International Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON 2005) provided a forum to discuss issues of open source software in a government setting. This conference report highlights some of the key people and issues discussed at GOSCON 2005.