Wow, I wonder if this will create some space for a new competitor? I mean apart from these 2, who else are a serious option for rock solid SaaS IdP?
I recommend SuperTokens https://supertokens.io/
Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
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#22Does this rise to the level of antitrust scrutiny? Aren't these like the two biggest SSO providers?
A little, but I don't even think they're the biggest.
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#23Effectively a dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334659
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#24Wow, I wonder if this will create some space for a new competitor? I mean apart from these 2, who else are a serious option for rock solid SaaS IdP?
> ...who else are a serious option for rock solid SaaS IdP?
Google Cloud (Firebase Auth), AWS (Cognito), and Azure (Active Directory) are as rock-solid as they come.
FusionAuth.io, userbase.com, and clerk.dev come to mind as well.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#25More 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.
Honestly as auth0 users we were mulling moving over to okta anyway. Auth0s offering has always been slightly rough around the edges and we end up slightly suboptimal implementations because of that.
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#26> 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…
So you're not fond of them?
I have limited exposure. We use them at my place of work for 2fa for our VPN. And an organization we work with uses it for authentication.
But I haven't had to use them in anything I've developed.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Honestly as auth0 users we were mulling moving over to okta anyway. Auth0s offering has always been slightly rough around the edges and we end up slightly suboptimal implementations because of that.
If that were the case, Okta would not have acquired Auth0.
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#28One auth to rule them all.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly as auth0 users we were mulling moving over to okta anyway. Auth0s offering has always been slightly rough around the edges and we end up slightly suboptimal implementations because of that.
If that were the case, Okta would not have acquired Auth0.
Taking over a competitor is always a good idea, simply to reduce the amount of players you compete with. This is why Facebook gobbled up Instagram and Whatsapp.
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#30There's something about Okta that just scares me. If Okta is ever compromised, so are the thousands of companies that rely on it for IdP. How do companies mitigate this risk? Or do they?