Comments on: Now Sun has a social network server, too

Sun is making a social network server. Why?

[lmasanti]

I think that Sun has a "buy all your stuff from me" politics.
It always does [want to] sell you everything.
And do not forget that it is also made in Sun's Java!

[mbbickel]

The way we see the market going is that there are an emerging set of API's and infrastructure software needed to enable a website to become social. One of those API's is Open Social, and the Shindig project implements this. You could kind of view Shindig as equal to the old Sun Reference Implementations of like J2EE, and SocialSite as a production implementation. Of coruse RIngside is another production implementation of Open Social (done in PHP vs. Sun's implementation in Java) and with a broader foot print because of support for Facebook's API's and a richer set for security, payment and other applications we have included for things like Profile, friending, polls, etc.

Bob Bickel
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[TodoInTX]

I can sorta see how this falls in line with Identity Management. A big part of what defines my identity is who I associate with.