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Does IBM know what is Single Sign-On?

Friday Jan 07, 2005

I came across this (IBM web site shame) weblog about a customers experience in a IBM website.  

For a company that makes its money selling business integration products and services, IBM sure has a long way to go.

Take their web site, for instance. I am downloading IBM’s new IDE, Rational Software Architect. Because of bad design and poor integration, it took me half an hour to register a login that would allow me to begin. more

I take this opportunity to explain what will be the experience if you browse through various Sun Web Venues. Almost all the major Sun Customers web sites like Mysun, Training, Sun Store, Sun Solve and many more are integrated with a Single Sign-On authentication system. What does this mean? It means that if you have an account with one system, you can use the same account to login to other Sun websites.In addition to Single Sign-On you will also experience session transfer, that is if you login to one system and visit any other system you are automagically logged in. Give it a try and let us know your feedback.
IBM practice what you preach!.

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Posted at 06:46AM Jan 07, 2005 by prabhu_v in General
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Let's be completely fair here. Sun had these same issues--I complained about this several times. When Sun finally did start moving toward a Single Sign-On solution, which they had been selling to others for some time, the migration was NOT without its growing pains. That this migration is actually completed is news to me; there are a couple of the places I haven't been in ages, and Sun certainly did not tell me this had been completed, like they did when the had the SNAFU's combining the Solaris and JAVA sites. Yeah, I like slamming IBM as much as the next guy, but this is the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by Rainer on January 07, 2005 at 08:33 AM MST #

To add to the previous comment, the migration at Sun is still not complete. As far as I know, at least Sun's Chinese and Japanese developer sites still have separate sign-ons from the main developer sites because of incomplete internationalization of the main sites. Chinese or Japanese developers who want to access the content on their dedicated developer sites, but also want to be able to report and vote for bugs on bugs.sun.com, need two separate IDs.

Posted by Norbert on January 07, 2005 at 01:24 PM MST #

I totally agree with the previous 2 comments. What I am trying to say is that Sun has taken the initiative to do the Single Sign-On while IBM hasn't.

Posted by prabhu velayutham on January 08, 2005 at 08:11 AM MST #

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