Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

Post by rizpanjwani » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 4:17 AM UTC

andrew_ wrote: post #50

I 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…

Post by cat199 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 4:40 AM UTC

marc__1 wrote: post #48

capableweb wrote: post #8

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> 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.

Bezos apparently said one that "Your margin is my opportunity". If this merger increases future profitability of new Okta, then you can argue there is a newer genuine market opportunity in authentication. The VC-backed industry is all about creating new opportunities (and by definition disrupting someone else's business), and recirculating investment money, improving our economy

Post by atlgator » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:19 AM UTC

msaidentity wrote: post #209

vwpolo3 wrote: post #113

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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.

If you're looking for next generation of identity solutions? https://magic.link is what everyone would need, provides decentralised identity, fair pricing and no vendor lock-in. I love their startup pricing.

Post by neurostimulant » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:41 AM UTC

Conan_Kudo wrote: post #189

neurostimulant wrote: post #172

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I wish keycloak has smaller memory footprint so I can cram it in a small vps together with other small webapps. Other than that it's excellent.

There's a Quarkus-based build of Keycloak called Keycloak.X that seems to significantly improve this: https://www.keycloak.org/2020/12/first-keycloak-x-release.ad...

Post by rishabhpoddar » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:03 AM UTC

daenney wrote: post #47

erulabs wrote: post #21

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I recommend SuperTokens https://supertokens.io/

> All other providers require an OAuth implementation even if you do not need SSO because of the way they’ve architected their solution. With SuperTokens, we’ve decoupled the functionality for different use cases, making it possible to only worry about the features you need. Eh? You’re either doing Oauth or you’re not? What have they decoupled?