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Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO

Posted by kdawson on from the single-sign-off dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Scandinavians again. by spun · · Score: 2, Informative

    Depends on whether you would call the UK circa 1970 a capitalist country or not. The inventor of the relational database was British.

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  2. Re:This is the way of MySQL too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is why you probably aren't a business man. MySQL still has plenty of people who are loyal to the MySQL brand and will continue to use it, whether it's Sun or Oracle who's owning it. Anyway Oracle already has a version of their database you can use for limited use.

  3. Code still accessible from the CVS by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want the source you can get the info to obtain it from here http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSSO/CVS+Tags

    I'm grabbing the source now.

  4. Re:MySQL next? by sadov · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apropos -- Oracles acquisition of Sun for russian regional representations approved by russian Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation at 19 March.

    The main condition of this approvement -- 4 years of MySQL support & development and saving of Open Source status of this project.

    You may found this verdict at agency site (unfortunately only on Russian now ;) :

    http://www.fas.gov.ru/merger/decisions032010/a_29515.shtml

  5. Re:MySQL next? by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Informative

    And don't forget Ingres, SQLite (which is good enough for a lot of low-bandwidth stuff that MySQL has historically been used for), Drizzle (MySQL fork), and probably at least a half dozen others....

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  6. Re:The Sun Also Sets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree - SSO is nice when it's done properly. But unfortunately, I work for Oracle.

    And Oracle has what ~they call an SSO~ for most of their internal stuff, but it isn't really. I.e. it's the same credentials but you have to separately enter them on every freaking page. Webmail? Enter your SSO. Procurement? Enter your SSO. Timesheets? Changing your employee details? You get the idea.

    What's worse is that on top of this there's still a handful of systems that don't use the SSO, like the IP phone consoles and the teleconferencing solution they have.