$6,500,000,000.00 for a company providing authentication APIs? Am I the only person left on earth that hasn't lost his mind?
Check out Auth0's pricing page and it might start to make sense to you, they're outrageously expensive
Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
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Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#112I hope this gives rise to another, smaller viable party outside of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Perhaps I'm jaded, perhaps hopelessly biased - but I can only see this as a net negative. Okta's open source packages receive a pitiful amount of attention (for example: https://github.com/okta/okta-oidc-js/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... ) with forks almost becoming a requirement. Auth0 by contrast has been "on the ball" for…
I did an integration with AWS Cognitio. It can only act as an oauth client, not a server.
So it can only let people log in with Google etc, not log in with on other apps
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#113I hope this gives rise to another, smaller viable party outside of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Perhaps I'm jaded, perhaps hopelessly biased - but I can only see this as a net negative. Okta's open source packages receive a pitiful amount of attention (for example: https://github.com/okta/okta-oidc-js/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... ) with forks almost becoming a requirement. Auth0 by contrast has been "on the ball" for…
There are already true open source alternatives on the horizon such as https://github.com/ory
It is about time for a new generation of identity systems in my opinion. This acquisition shows the risk of centralized, vendor locked-in services.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#114If anyone's looking for an Auth0 alternative, come check out FusionAuth! It's been built from the ground up for developer experience with a distinct lack of jargon, amazing customizability, an API first approach and great docs. Plus, enterprise features too, including SSO/SAML, OIDC, and more. https://fusionauth.io/docs/ (I work at FusionAuth.)
lol did you copy my comment? :P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26335608
Sure did, figured it was open season :) Still got downvoted, oh well.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#115$6,500,000,000.00 for a company providing authentication APIs? Am I the only person left on earth that hasn't lost his mind?
Check out Auth0's pricing page and it might start to make sense to you, they're outrageously expensive
Or the numbers in this comment:
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you heard of https://fusionauth.io/ ? I'm not a user of the product, but I know some of the folks behind it. Might be time for them to shine here.
Thanks for the mention. We already do see quite a few Auth0 converts. I expect to gain a lot of new customers as a result of this merger in the coming months. No complaints here.
Hey Dan, curious: why it's so difficult to figure out who is behind the company from the website?
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#117Wow, 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?
Come on over to the FusionAuth! The water is great! - https://fusionauth.io
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that were the case, Okta would not have acquired Auth0.
Acquisitions don't happen exclusively because a company is buying out someone who is better than them. Sometimes they happen so a company can buy out someone so they won't have the chance to become better than them and a serious competitor.
And for those in the back that don't know, using that as a reason for an acquisition is illegal and considered anti-competitive practice, hence you'll never hear a company publicly state that reason.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#119I hope this gives rise to another, smaller viable party outside of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Perhaps I'm jaded, perhaps hopelessly biased - but I can only see this as a net negative. Okta's open source packages receive a pitiful amount of attention (for example: https://github.com/okta/okta-oidc-js/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... ) with forks almost becoming a requirement. Auth0 by contrast has been "on the ball" for…
Agreed, I found it hard to write integrations with Okta and ended up using Keycloak and integrating it as an OIDC client. I found Keycloak extremely easy to setup and work with.
Also have huge extensive experience with keycloak and highly recommend it. It’s best when used as a custom docker container (so you can add your certs) but I’ve used it to build enterprise-wide auth, department level permissions and authorization, product level auth, and even SSO to AWS console.
Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
#120If you want to own your identity management, consider Keycloak. It's mature, battle-tested, and works like a champ.