Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO

mdm42 writes "OpenSSO is one of the best open source web Single Sign On projects out there. Sun Microsystems made OpenSSO open source in 2008, so it's sad to see how, after absorbing Sun, Oracle is shutting down this amazing project, labelling it 'not strategic' and dismembering the few parts they think are worthwhile for their own SSO effort. They started by freezing the next express release, and during the last few weeks they have been removing all the open source downloads from the OpenSSO website and removing content from the wiki. Fortunately, a Norwegian company called ForgeRock has stepped up to the plate in an attempt to salvage the project under the new name OpenAM."

Comments

not strategic

[nurb432]

Well of course not. If it doesn't make Oracle money, it will be gone.

Scandinavians again.

[unity100]

please, those who have the tendency to batter me with hardliner conservative arguments in discussions, make a mental note - this is one of the cases i always give examples of success of social democracies, and how heavy regulation and keeping-in-check of corporations spurs innovation far more than the reckless corporate owned environment does. an american company, which lives in a land in which corporations rule, shuts down something useful, and that useful thing gets immediately salvaged by a company which lives in a land in which corporations are heavily kept in check and regulated. and again, another scandinavian country.