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Linden Lab launches enterprise version of Second Life virtual world

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 04, 2009

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Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into the companies themselves with an enterprise version of the virtual world that sits behind a firewall.

Linden Lab is announcing the open beta of its Second Life Enterprise product today. Companies can buy a server appliance with a secure version of Second Life for $55,000. The virtual world will be accessible via a company intranet and will be closed off from other users on the web-based virtual world. It’s sort of like opening up some private spaces in an otherwise public virtual world. The work on the technology has been in the works since 2008, when IBM and Linden Lab struck a partnership for creating a secure version of Second Life.

San Francisco-based Linden Lab has been working on the technology for the past year and already has a bunch of beta testers, including IBM, Northrop Grumman, and the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman, the defense contractor, uses its version