IBM Second Life Joint Effort to Lock Up Islands: Put Your Sim Behind a Firewall
Business in Virtual Worlds, Second Life | (1)
Linden Lab and IBM have announced a joint venture to allow corporations to run islands in Second Life behind corporate firewalls.
According to the New York Times:
"The goal, they say, is to offer companies “secure, flexible and customizable” 3-D virtual environments that are designed and controlled by corporations. The initial effort is a demonstration project, running Second Life technology on I.B.M. servers, behind a Big Blue firewall. But the companies plan to introduce a corporate offering before the end of this year, either as a product or as a service, presumably hosted by I.B.M."
Linden has been planning to 'open the gird' ...