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September 21st, 2006 — Open Source
Identity Management Software is an enterprise software. It is considered as one of “top of the food-chain” software. Our industry is still in the -you’re-not-going-get-fired-when-you-buy-*name your big vendor here*- paradigm, when it comes to Identity Management software.
We maintain and publish open source identity management software map. The goal of this map is to give a quick snapshot of the current state of Identity Management software from an open source perspective.
Is it possible to build an open source Identity Management software stack that is analogous to LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack? The question is not whether open source identity management stack will happen, but just when the technology will reach critical mass. We believe this will happen sooner than later. Our prediction is that many of the initiatives on our IdM map will have a massive adoption in the next two years.
P.S: We will do our best to “separate the wheat from the chaf” in our next version of the identity map based on the popularity/project adoption rate.
May 11th, 2006 — Open Source
There is a clear and mutual relationship of Open Standards with Open Source Software (OSS).
Open standards aid OSS projects
- Makes it easy for users to adopt an OSS program, because users not locked in – eases migration & integration
- Simplifies OSS development (developers know what to do)
- Open standards aid proprietary projects same way
OSS aids open standards
- OSS implementations help create & keep open standards open (reference model demos implementability & how, clarifies spec)
- Rapidly increases use of open standard. “Implement by downloading” makes standard widespread, & downward cost pressure reigns in price of proprietary (increasing use)
- Successful open standards have OSS implementation
Excerpt above is lifted from David A. Wheeler presentation (Open Standards and Security)
While some companies are spending their engineers time to participate in working groups and standards setting organizations, our industry is a better place today because of the significant OSS contributions of all of the hardworking individuals from ASF, Mozilla, Codehaus and other open source communities.
April 28th, 2006 — Open Source
Asyncweb, a non-blocking Java HTTP engine project from Safehaus, was accepted for O’reilly. Here is the session’s link - Building a High Performance XML Router with AsyncWeb and XFire
September 29th, 2005 — Open Source
Identity Management related OSS Map is now online. Check it out here. I’ll do my best to update them every month.