Gluu vs. Ping Identity – a (mostly) unbiased comparison

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  Gluu vs. Ping Identity a (mostly) unbiased
comparison
  We know that the strength of open standards is
that customers will be able to choose from many
commercial and open source solutions. We believe
more gas stations on the corner means more
business for everyone.   We enjoy competing
with Ping, if thats possible. Ping provides
greatly needed support for open standards, and
has literally hosted the ecosystem of companies
in their hometown and abroad at many great
events. Not surprisingly, we frequently get asked
the question How does Gluu compare to Ping? In
the interest of efficiency, we decided to write
this blog to help explain what are some of the
reasons why some customers might prefer Gluu or
Ping.   If you fit into one of these categories,
you may prefer to go with Gluu Green   You want
Open Source. Either you are paranoid, and you
actually want to read all the code. Or you have
realized that open source is simply the best
development model for writing servers based on
open Internet standards.   You want OpenID
Connect or UMA today. Compare the current results
of Ping and Gluu from the latest OpenID Connect
Interop (5
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Its going to take Ping a long time to write all
that code. And there are even more endpoints and
tokens for UMA.   Gluu offers tools for
Multi-Party federations. This type of federation
is used extensively in higher education and
government. It provides both the tools and rules
to enable networks of autonomous IDPs and RPs to
drive down the cost of SSO, improve security and
protect privacy.   You want a managed service.
Gluus use of Puppet to standardize delivery of
the OX stack offers a compromise between a
multi-tenant SaaS identity offering (PingOne),
and an enterprise software deployment
(PingFederate). It offers the operational
advantage of a SaaS service, without the security
and privacy dis-advantage of storing PII on
shared servers.   You dont want to pay per user
or per application. The Gluu Server subscription
offers a predictable annual operational cost.
There are no per-user or per connection fees even
for strong multi-factor authentication.   Article
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