Today at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo (ZendCon), Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic collaboration with Zend Technologies Inc. that will ultimately provide people with better control over their personal information on the Web and greatly improve the trustworthiness of Web-based interactions.
Microsoft’s relationship with Zend Technologies will enable support for information cards by PHP developers through a component built for Zend Framework. Using this as a stand-alone component or as part of the framework, PHP developers will be able to specify a Web site’s security policy and accept information cards from trusted third parties.
The cooperative work on information cards that Microsoft is announcing today with Zend extends the company’s previous interoperability efforts in this area. Microsoft, in collaboration with industry partners Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS and ThoughtWorks Inc., has developed open source interoperability projects on information cards for systems based on Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java language, as well as Ruby.
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