Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy and corporate partners will unveil an alliance Wednesday for handling computer users' "digital identity," an effort likely aimed at Microsoft's Passport system for storing personal information and controlling access to Internet sites. Sun representatives declined to detail the alliance, but the target is clear. Sun and other Microsoft competitors have waged a steady campaign against Microsoft's Passport as a way to give people a digital identity on the Internet. Sun instead favors a neutral method that's not controlled by a single company. A source inside Sun said the project is internally dubbed "Liberty," and remains in the very early stages of development.
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