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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. MySQL next? by Bearhouse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, probably yes...

  2. This is the way of MySQL too? by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This may be a test to see if they get attention for shutting down an open source project they inherited in order to also in the long run do the same to MySQL and possibly also other OpenSource projects.

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    If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
  3. Re: Maybe not by Bearhouse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it is more likely they would provide much less support and engineering resources for it going forward, leaving it to the community outside of Sun to keep it feature and bug competitive.

    Pretty much what I meant...but a fork surely won't be as credible with the corporate suits as a product with Sun behind it.
    Shame, MySQL & Ooffice are both great products IMHO.
    Maybe a white knight (with a Red Hat?) will take it over, but I'm sure if they're too successful than Larry will find a way to stymie it...