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Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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Post by tootie »

Wow. These guys were basically 1 and 2 when it comes to enterprise auth/CIAM. It's great news for the businesses, but will likely only decrease competition in the marketplace. There's a ton of second tier competitors out there with plausible offerings who are probably going to start consolidating to stay alive.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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Post by politelemon »

> and integrated over time

I'm reading too much into this sentence fragment and it fills me with fear.

I smell breaking domain changes in the future. They can't allow the .auth0.com tenants to operate as-is forever, which means existing tenants will get grandfathered in and eventually forced off the .auth0.com domain onto okta's domains.

I smell messy login sites in the future. I like Auth0's implementation of their Universal Login page, which didn't require JavaScript. In the quest for 'one single brand identity' someone will force a migration to Okta's login implementation instead.

That will come with changing client IDs, client secrets, M2Ms and everything else needed in their setup.

I might as well create a Jira ticket for this now.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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Post by capableweb »

marc__1 wrote: post #3

More information on the ppt Auth0 200M ARR 50% Growth 120%+ Net Retention Rate https://investor.okta.com/static-files/83f1811e-2f92-4c08-a1... What a great acquisition. Congrats to both teams!

> What a great acquisition. Congrats to both teams!

Great acquisition for those two, what about customers who always seem to lose when companies get acquired? The market now has less competition, people who were using Auth0 is eventually gonna have to modify their infrastructure because of this and things will become more unstable.

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