Microsoft is interested in open source software

Higgins and Bandit open source software projects are playing an important role in developing open source software homogeneous services. This project is intended to connect to Microsoft's homogeneous system.

Next week, in San Francisco, there will be an information technology seminar (RSA Conference). Here, Higgins and Bandit project supporters will prove that the new version of this application will soon be introduced to open source software homogeneous service. This project received the support of IBM and Novell.

' The key here is that the source code components that are being provided can integrate with products and systems ,' said Novell's Dale Olds. Novell is a partner with the Higgins project and made Bandit introduced last year.

InforCard by Microsoft

Higgins was presented as an open source software to "respond to" Microsoft's Windows CardSpace - known as information cards (InforCard). As an effort by Microsoft, Higgins gives people greater control over data when they want to do business online.

Windows CardSpace (InfoCard) is a new technique that makes it easy and safe to use and share personal information on the Internet. InfoCard helps web users no longer have to worry about remembering too many "username" (username) and "password" (passwords) when accessing the web. In addition, InfoCard also allows creating secure user account administration web applications.

Imagine you sign up for an account in Yahoo, one of Google and a member of three forums. Each place you have to have a username and password, so you have to remember 5 usernames and 5 passwords. Not to mention that you have to remember the name and password using a computer, using some software on your computer. What a headache?

Or do you want to register as a member of a web service to exploit data from this website. Often you will have to fill out some personal information on the registration form website. Now you do not need to do that, just give a code (you can use this code at any site that requires), then the site automatically links to another website posting information yours. If valid, you can be a member right away without typing a password or reporting any more information, it is InfoCard.

Thus, the InfoCard helps you have a code that looks like an online identity card. Wherever you go on the internet, keep saying: my "ID"!

The Higgins and Bandit open source software project also promises to bring the coordination between many homogeneous systems ever used online.

The Bandit project aims to create an open source software toolkit for uniform data use services for online transactions.

People working on Higgins, the software backed by Novell and IBM, plan to release the first version called Higgins Trust Framework. It will work properly with Microsoft.

' It is an important technology event in our operation when we release version 1.0, ' said Mary Ruddy, head of the project Higgins.

The version of this application will be released next week allowing each individual user of a different digital 'I - Card' to access online and service sites under Higgin and Bandit.

Developers working on these open source software projects have received support from Microsoft in creating collaboration, Ruddy said.

Microsoft is comfortable when its ideas are implemented under open source software 'world'.

' It is worth seeing Bandit and Higgins projects, as well as the growth of the open source software community, ' said Kim Cameron, a Microsoft software architect.

Thuy Linh