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 / databases, josh-berkus, mysql, open-source, postgresql, sun, sunmicrosystems, tim-oreilly

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 / identity, laurenwood, openid, pii, privacy, sun, sunmicrosystems

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 / datagovernance, governance, laurenwood, openid, privacy, sun, sunmicrosystems

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 / openid, sun, sunmicrosystems