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

And why do I care?

[Anonymous Coward]

What does this OpenSSO do for me that Kerberos doesn't?

If Oracle wants to do something useful with the Sun assets, they should kill off java. Java is an abomination upon the IT world. I have yet to see a well-written unbloated java app.

Case in point: RSA rewrote their entire SecurID one-time token server in java. What used to be a fast, nimble application that started within 15 seconds now takes 15 minutes to start. RSA recommends 60 gigs of free space. The previous version required 200 megabytes.

Re:Scandinavians again.

[unity100]

are you aware of the number of open source projects that have been spawned in scandinavia, or greatly contributed to by scandinavia ? one of them is linux.

Oracle

[arrinam]

I'm new to Oracle and working in SQL plus. There are several old views that were created before my time. Top Grade Acai Extreme