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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: sunmicrosystems</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/sunmicrosystems.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-01-16T13:55:45+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Sun To Acquire MySQL</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/16/sun/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-01-16T13:55:45+00:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T13:55:45+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/16/sun/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/sun_acquires_mysql.html"&gt;Sun To Acquire MySQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases"&gt;databases&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/josh-berkus"&gt;josh-berkus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql"&gt;mysql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postgresql"&gt;postgresql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sun"&gt;sun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sunmicrosystems"&gt;sunmicrosystems&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tim-oreilly"&gt;tim-oreilly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="databases"/><category term="josh-berkus"/><category term="mysql"/><category term="open-source"/><category term="postgresql"/><category term="sun"/><category term="sunmicrosystems"/><category term="tim-oreilly"/></entry><entry><title>Sun's OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/25/anyway/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-09-25T22:39:47+00:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T22:39:47+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/25/anyway/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/09/25/suns-openid-idp-real-vs-fake/"&gt;Sun&amp;#x27;s OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The thinking behind Sun’s decision to allow users of their OpenID provider to pick fake names and assign personal e-mail addresses.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/identity"&gt;identity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lauren-wood"&gt;lauren-wood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pii"&gt;pii&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/privacy"&gt;privacy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sun"&gt;sun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sunmicrosystems"&gt;sunmicrosystems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="identity"/><category term="lauren-wood"/><category term="openid"/><category term="pii"/><category term="privacy"/><category term="sun"/><category term="sunmicrosystems"/></entry><entry><title>Sun's OpenID IdP: Data Governance</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/22/anyway/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-09-22T20:50:32+00:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T20:50:32+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/22/anyway/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/09/21/suns-openid-idp-data-governance/"&gt;Sun&amp;#x27;s OpenID IdP: Data Governance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Lauren Wood explains the checklist used to ensure Sun’s OpenID provider adequately respected user privacy and data governance (what happens to the data that is stored).


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-governance"&gt;data-governance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/governance"&gt;governance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lauren-wood"&gt;lauren-wood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/privacy"&gt;privacy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sun"&gt;sun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sunmicrosystems"&gt;sunmicrosystems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="data-governance"/><category term="governance"/><category term="lauren-wood"/><category term="openid"/><category term="privacy"/><category term="sun"/><category term="sunmicrosystems"/></entry><entry><title>Sun OpenID IdP: protocol and implementation review</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/22/pushing/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-09-22T20:22:30+00:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T20:22:30+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/22/pushing/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2007/09/21/sun-openid-idp-protocol-and-implementation-review/"&gt;Sun OpenID IdP: protocol and implementation review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Sun employees are posting lots of useful insights gathered during the implementation of their OpenID provider.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sun"&gt;sun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sunmicrosystems"&gt;sunmicrosystems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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