Simon Willison’s Weblog

Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL. 16th January 2008, 1:55 pm

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake. The thinking behind Sun’s decision to allow users of their OpenID provider to pick fake names and assign personal e-mail addresses. 25th September 2007, 10:39 pm

Sun’s OpenID IdP: Data Governance. Lauren Wood explains the checklist used to ensure Sun’s OpenID provider adequately respected user privacy and data governance (what happens to the data that is stored). 22nd September 2007, 8:50 pm

Sun OpenID IdP: protocol and implementation review. Sun employees are posting lots of useful insights gathered during the implementation of their OpenID provider. 22nd September 2007, 8:22 pm