My recent posts about ForgeRock attracted a lot of attention. The reactions filled the spectrum almost completely. I’ve seen agreement, disagreement, peaceful and heated reactions. Some people were expressing thanks, others were obviously quite upset. Some people seem to take it as an attack on ForgeRock. This was not my goal. I didn’t want to Read more about Pax[…]
I started my work on OpenIDM almost precisely five years ago . At that time, ForgeRock was only a couple of months old. OpenIDM was just a very small bunch of ragtag prototype code that did not make much sense. I was the only one in the team that had any product development and architecture Read more about From OpenIDM to Success[…]
MidPoint 3.1.1 was released few days ago. It is formally an update to the “Sinan” (midPoint 3.1). But this is actually quite a substantial release as the original goal of “small and quick” update started a life of its own. This is a lesson for us what can happen when a development is driven by Read more about midPoint 3.1.1[…]
A month ago I have described my disappointment with OpenAM. My rant obviously attracted some attention in one way or another. But perhaps the best reaction came from Bill Nelson. Bill does not agree with me. Quite the contrary. And he has some good points that I can somehow agree with. But I cannot agree Read more about Comparing Disasters[…]
There was a nice little event in Bratislava called Open Source Weekend. It was organized by Slovak Society for Open Information Technologies. It has been quite a long time since I had a public talk, therefore I’ve decided that this a good opportunity to change that. Hence I had quite an unusual presentation for this kind Read more about How to Get Rich by Working on Open Source Project?[…]
Industry analysts produce their studies and fancy charts for decades. There is no doubt that some of them are quite influential. But have you ever wondered how are the results of these studies produced? Do the results actually reflect reality? How are the positions of individual products in the charts determined? Are the methodologies based Read more about How Precise are the Analysts?[…]
I’m dealing with the OpenAM and its predecessors for a very long time. I remember Sun Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME) in early 2000s. After many years and (at least) three rebrandings, the product was finally released as OpenSSO. That’s where Oracle struck and killed the product. ForgeRock picked it up. And that’s where Read more about Hacking OpenAM, Level: Nightmare[…]
The Evolveum team is great. I cannot put it in any other way. It is the best team that I have ever worked with. I have a long history of projects that I worked on: big projects, small projects, corporate projects, academic projects, consulting projects, deployment projects, development projects … and some of these were Read more about Evolveum Winter 2015[…]
MidPoint 3.1 was released few days ago. This version is code-named “Sinan” in honor of Koca Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect and civil engineer. Sinan was undoubtedly one of the best and most efficient builder of civic structures that the world has ever seen. And that’s exactly how we want it to be: efficient, elegant and useful. Read more about MidPoint 3.1: New release called Sinan[…]
In 2010 we were happy when the project compiled. In 2011 we were happy when most tests passed. In 2012 we were happy when all tests passed. In 2013 we were happy when we had a stable deployment. In 2014 we were happy when our software surpassed most competing products. … really I wonder what Read more about 2015[…]