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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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If anyone's looking for an Auth0 alternative, come check out WorkOS! It's like Stripe for enterprise features, including SSO/SAML, Directory/SCIM, and more. https://workos.com/docs (I'm the founder.) Edit: Here’s our launch last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402

We use WorkOS at Cleary for SSO with microsoft exchange - works great and the team is super responsive and friendly. Thanks @grinich!

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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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…

We are doing this at WorkOS. :) It's like Stripe for enterprise features, including SSO/SAML, Directory/SCIM, and more. https://workos.com/docs

We've been integrating WorkOS with our product. The directory syncing is awesome, and the docs are well sorted.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

#184

$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?

It's for the business and the users, obviously. Not just an API.

If it was easy to amass this many paying customers, surely other competitors would have rushed in to compete, right?

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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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!

Really? $6.5B is over 32x their current run rate, and that's projected revenue , not actual profit.

Those numbers are pretty insane though, especially the Net Retention.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

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Yeah there’s a tab for it in the latest docker images, although I’ve never configured it

It's there! Awesome. Thank you.

Please make a write up about using it - my current use of keycloak doesn't fit webauthn (clients access it from virtual workstations that don't have usb access) but I'd like to incorporate it further in my toolbox for future projects

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

#187

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?

For Enterprise SSO, the market that Okta focuses on, Azure AD is by far the biggest player. They get their foot in the door at companies with Office365, which then makes it a really easy move for companies to consolidate all SSO there. Other responses are commenting on features, but AAD is everywhere.

The only other hosted solution (other than Okta and AAD) I have ever seen at my clients is Ping. In comparison, all the other players are nowhere as nearly established.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

#188

I hate this. We moved from Okta a few years ago after we were basically received almost no actual real support for a bunch of issues, even though we were paying a premium cost. Nobody cares about issues on their Github, the kicker was a when we received a support response as suddenly something was no longer working after an update, we got help in the form of "We have no plans to address this anytime soon." when askin…

I've never dealt with Okta support but my support issue with Auth0 was top notch.

However, their 'Rules' system for hooking into the Auth request is abstracted at the Auth0 account level rather than the individual app level. That makes it too easy to accidentally screw up all of the apps on an account.

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

#189

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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.

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...

Re: Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

#190

> 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…

> They can't allow the .auth0.com tenants to operate as-is forever

Why not?

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