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Several IT executives at the LinuxWorld Summit last week reinforced the idea that Linux now has the technical brawn and industry support to accommodate the most demanding business applications in environments such as finance, airline reservations and stock trading.

Sun Microsystems has released an open-source tool for developers that will allow them to begin testing network identity applications that use the Liberty Alliance specification, the company said Wednesday at the SunNetwork conference here.

The Liberty Alliance Project this week added five new members, kicking up momentum behind the organization as it prepares to release its first technology specification this summer.

Novell Inc. is planning to throw its weight behind the Liberty Alliance Project, an initiative aimed at creating an open identity standard for authenticating users on the Internet.

Executives from Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. started out on a conciliatory note in a debate over the direction of Web services Wednesday at the InfoWorld Next-Generation Web services conference, but by the end of the hour-long session, the intense rivalry between the two companies surfaced.