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OpenSSO becomes OpenAM
This
entry in the not403 blog discusses OpenSSO, a single sign-on
project which Oracle acquired from Sun and has subsequently
shut down. "A Norwegian company called ForgeRock has stepped up to
give OpenSSO a new home and continue developing OpenSSO under a new name:
OpenAM (because of copyright issues with the name). They claim they will
continue with Sun's original roadmap for the product, and they have started
to make available again all of the express builds, including agents, that
were removed from OpenSSO's site, and a new wiki with all the content that
once was available at dev.java.net."
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OpenSSO becomes OpenAM Posted Mar 19, 2010 14:13 UTC (Fri) by djf_jeff (subscriber, #62173) [Link]
That's what I fear with the acquisition of Sun from Oracle. Yes, we talk about Solaris, Java, OpenSolaris, Sun hardware, mysql, etc. But what of all the small projects that we have not necessarily heard of before. Will Oracle shut all of them down?
I never heard of OpenSSO before but I am happy to see a new team taking the lead.
OpenSSO becomes OpenAM Posted Mar 19, 2010 16:31 UTC (Fri) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link] Yes, Oracle seems to be losing a lot of the smaller Sun projects. The Drizzle team was recently acquired by Rackspace, for example. Oracle has closed Sun's Project Kenai open source hosting. Apparently, some projects exited Sun just before the merger as well, such as the JRuby team. It will be interesting to see whether these smaller projects become weaker or stronger as a result of exiting Sun. On the one hand, they will lose valuable resources and financial support. On the other, they will be independent of Sun's / Oracle's attempts to manage their licensing and "IP", and freer to chart their own course. The most excellent thing, though, is that it looks like most of the developers on these projects will continue to get paid by someone. The open source community has really matured over the last five years or so; at this point, there seem to be plenty of folks willing to stake salaries for promising projects.
OpenSSO becomes OpenAM Posted Mar 19, 2010 18:00 UTC (Fri) by misiu_mp (guest, #41936) [Link]
"continue developing OpenSSO under a new name: OpenAM (because of copyright
issues with the name"
A name doesn't have copyright issues. It is rather trademark issues.
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