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In 2009, Mike Schwartz founded Gluu because he felt it was too hard and too expensive for organizations to manage identity and web access management system (wams).
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Go Gluu! Get A Google Grant! Chase and Google announced: Chase and Google are committed to helping small businesses grow. Through Mission Main Street Grants, businesses can apply for a $250,000 grant from Chase. Rally support from customers and friends to get 250 votes to be eligible. We decided to post our application so people could know more about the Gluu story… Tell us about your business. What inspired you to start your business? How is your business successful? What makes it unique? In 2009, Mike Schwartz founded Gluu because he felt it was too hard and too expensive for organizations to manage identity and web access management system (wams). After reading “The Big Switch,” by Nicholas Carr, he became convinced that a utility approach for IAM made sense, and that such a service could be built using open source software. Today, the Gluu Server is used by 20 universities, a few large organizations, and we’re expanding globally. Our open source OX project is one of the best OAuth2 servers available.
How is your business involved with the community you serve? In 2010, there was no OAuth2 server that provided support for OpenID Connect, which we saw as an important new protocol for authentication. We started the OX open source project to write one. According to the last completed OpenID Connect Interop results, it was the most comprehensive server. Recently, we launched a crowd funded effort to the fund OAuth2 plugins for Apache. With the help of 30 individuals and three companies, we achieved our goal. What would a $250,000 grant mean to your business and how will you utilize the funds to ensure long-term growth and stability? We believe the approval of a new OAuth2 standard for authentication OpenID Connect, will increase demand for our offering. It is very hard to find funding for small businesses that write open source software for new identity standards. $250,000 would give us the ability to develop additional features for our open source platform, and would help us add additional resources to pilot projects to help showcase the potential of the technology.
What challenges can you identify for your business, and how do you plan to overcome them? Meeting the challenge of “ease of use” and “fanatical support” are not easy for any organization, especially one that specializes in complex authentication systems. To achieve this, automation is an important part of the strategy–we try to stay calm and automate all things… There are no easy answers but through continuous improvement, we keep getting closer to the goal. Describe the talent and skill of your employees, and how they contribute to a successful business. Gluu is a diverse team. We have team members in the US, Ukraine, Bolivia, India, Norway, China, and Cameroon. The founder of Gluu, Mike Schwartz, is a leader in the digital identity space. The success of the OX project is a testament to the skills of the developers. The OX platform is leading the market for OAuth2 authentication and authorization, and could play in important role in making the Internet a safer place for consumers. Article resource: https://www.smore.com/y584s-go-gluu-get-a-google-grant
