Also, isn't the sales pitch behind IDPs like Auth0 is that few organizations actually _want_ to self-host an IDP? How is providing yet another self-hostable IDP server going to change that?
replyAnd the hubris of attempting to fight well-known self-hostable IDPs like Active Directory.
replyAnd the network effects of taking frontally cloud IDPs like Google, or even OpenID…
And because it's not trivial for SaaS to support your self-hosted IDP.
replyWe have standards like OIDC 2.0, but every IDP (including the big ones like Entra and Google) have subtle differences that still requires custom code per IDP. So all SaaS you interact with will have to do work to support your specific IDP solution.
Then there is support, you can't reasonably expect a SaaS that you pay a few bucks a month for to help you troubleshoot problems when authenticating using your self-hosted IDP solution inevitably fails.
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reply> Similarly, I don't get why anyone would even use them today. Auth0 has had better alternatives in a long time, and Salesforce, well, Salesforce is just trash
replyCould it be that Marc Benioff knows a few things that you don't know? If so, any guesses what those could be?