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An example of the awesomeness of the open source community
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| OpenSSO is one of the best (if it isn't the
| best one) open source web Single Sign On
| projects out there. Sun Microsystems on
| 2008 open-sourced one of their products
| called Access Manager, and rebranded it as
| OpenSSO. But it's sad to see how Oracle
| after Sun acquisition, is slowly shutting
| down this amazing open source project,
| marking it as "not strategic" and
| dismembering the few parts they think are
| worth for their own SSO product. They
| started on December by freezing the next
| express release, and during the last few
| weeks they have slowly started to remove
| all the open source downloads from OpenSSO
| website. Last but not least, they have also
| started to remove content from the wiki.
| Now, the only download available is the
| enterprise version, which is buried very
| deeply at Oracle's website (it took me like
| 15 minutes to find it, it isn't even listed
| as an Oracle product),and the patch sets
| that also were free to download, are now
| only available to paying customers with a
| valid support contract.
|
| [...]
|
| But here it comes the awesomeness of the
| open source community: A Norwegian company
| called ForgeRock has stepped up to give
| OpenSSO a new home and continue developing
| OpenSSO under a new name: OpenAM (because
| of copyright issues with the name). They
| claim they will conitnue with Sun's
| original roadmap for the product, and they
| have started to make available again all of
| the express builds, including agents, that
| were removed from OpenSSO's site, and a new
| wiki with all the content that once was
| available at dev.java.net.
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http://not403.blogspot.com/2010/03/example-of-awesomeness-of-open-source.html
Open source SSO lands in spotlight
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| Last week was a really big week -- perhaps
| the biggest ever -- for open source
| simplified sign-Ope on in general and
| OpenID in particular.
|
| [...]
|
| Not quite as momentous, and having nothing
| to do with OpenID, another SSO service was
| released into the wild as open source. I
| was really amazed by MetaPass SSO when I
| saw it two years ago ("MetaPass' single
| sign-on package enables administrators to
| create scripts visually") and now it's open
| source. Windows, Mac, and Linux executables
| and source-code of MetaPass SSO are
| available for download on the MetaPass Web
| site and on major open source Web sites
| (such as SourceForge). MetaPass is
| definitely an enterprise (not a consumer,
| or "user-centric") SSO solution. If you are
| friendly with "roll your own" software for
| your organization it's definitely worth a
| look.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2010/031510id2.html
Non-Profit Open Wonderland Launches
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| With the news last month that Oracle would
| be shutting down development resources for
| Project Wonderland, the open-source virtual
| world platform originally supported by Sun
| Microsystems, associated developers began
| looking for alternatives. Last week saw the
| launch of the Open Wonderland Foundation, a
| non-profit devoted to providing a free and
| open-source platform for virtual worlds
| based on Project Wonderland.
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http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2010/03/nonprofit-open-wonderland-launches.html
Recent:
IntelliJ IDE Keeps on Keepin' On
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| In a world of vanishing commercial Java IDEs,
| JetBrains' code-centric IntelliJ is something
| of an anomaly. Among the relatively few such
| tools to survive intact the advent of the
| Eclipse juggernaut, IntelliJ continues to
| innovate, adapt and, among its devoted users,
| thrive.
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http://adtmag.com/articles/2010/01/04/intellij-ide.aspx
Whatever happened to Second Life?
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| At its peak, the Second Life economy had more
| money swilling about than several third-world
| countries. It had even produced its own
| millionaire, Anshe Chung, who made a very
| real fortune from buying and selling property
| that existed only on Second Life servers.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life
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