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OpenDJ Roadmap Update…

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OpenDJ-300x100It took us some time to evaluate and refine the roadmap for OpenDJ, but it’s finally there. We’ve updated the Roadmap on the wiki, and set a date for the next release of OpenDJ.

The first change decided is that the next release will be versioned 2.6. We got the feedback that the versioning scheme with Xpress releases and final releases with the same version number is confusing. Moving forward, we will try to keep the following scheme : a stable release will have an even minor number and development releases will have an odd number.

We’ve also set the date for the release to end of Q2 of 2013 (end of June).

The REST to LDAP service has now been integrated in OpenDJ server, although not fully featured yet. The team is working really hard to deliver the remaining features by June, and closing the few remaining important defects. If you want to start evaluating the REST to LDAP service, just grab a recent nightly build. Mark is doing a great job of documenting the REST features as they become available.

We will soon make the RPM and Debian packages available for tests with the nightly builds, along with the new upgrade mechanism, and then enter a cycle of stabilization before the 2.6.0 release.

Feedback is important for us, so please download and test the nightly builds, report success via email or issues in our bug tracking tool.

Series B…

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After a record Q1, ForgeRock has now secured $15M in series B financing.

This is a great news, and is definitely setting us on a great global growth path.

Welcome to our new partner Foundation Capital, and thanks to Accel Partners for the renewed investment.

Devoxx France 2013

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DevoxxFR 2013, the conference for passionate developers that took place in Paris France last week , is over and the long easter week-end after it was well appreciated. The 3 days conference has been great for ForgeRock, and so busy for the whole staff that I couldn’t find the time to blog or even tweet during the conference. I spent most of my time on the booth, and didn’t get a chance to see any session. The only sessions I could fully participate in were the JUG Leaders BOF and my own Conference presentation about “Security for enterprises in a cloudy and mobile world” (See the presentation in French, on Parleys). That presentation was well attended and seemed to have caught interest, by judging from the number of questions that were asked during and after the presentation.
LP0_7549Our booth has been busy. We’ve had interesting discussions with developers, architects, consultants about our company, about our products. We met a few members of our community, already using our products, and even customers 🙂
We’ve also discussed with a few engineers interested in the job positions that we have open in our Research and Development center in Grenoble, both in product development and quality engineering.

I’d like to thank the organizers for the great conference. And I hope that we’ll be able to have a strong presence next year.

You can find my photo album from Devoxx France 2013 on G+.

Ready for Devoxx France…

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The second edition of the Devoxx France conference is starting tomorrow morning and we’re ready to welcome the 1300+ developers to our booth.

Booth at about 7pm.

ForgeRock booth at 7pm

And the booth at 7:45pm.

Looking forward to a great conference. See you all in the next 3 days.

Upcoming events: LavaJUG & Devoxx France

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I will be at the LavaJUG (Java User Group from Clermont-Ferrand, France) this Thursday from 19:00 to 21:00, presenting our experience with the OpenDJ project with building a highly scalable and high performance server in Java. The presentation is based on what I’ve already presented in a few JUG in France (AlpesJUG, MarsJUG, PoitouCharentesJUG,…) and Switzerland (JUG Lausanne), but has been updated with regards to GarbageFirst GC and the most recent HotSpot JVM.

 

And next week, from  March Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th, you will find ForgeRock at the Devoxx France conference.

Come to our conference session about “Enterprise Security in a Cloudy and Mobile World” (the session is in French). The session is on Friday 29th, from 11:45 to 12:35, in Miles Davis room. Mark it on your calendar, and if you miss it, make sure you stop by our booth (B3) to say hello and talk with some of our engineers. We will also be present at the HackerGarten on Wednesday from 14:00 to 18:00, should you want to have fun with one of our open source projects : OpenAM, OpenDJ or OpenIDM.

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Happy New Year 2013 !

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Another year has gone, but the World is still here. Time for new resolutions, wishes and hopes.

On behalf of the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center, I’m wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2013.

Happy New Year 2013.
(cc) 2012 – Ludovic Poitou.

2012 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

But before diving in the details of the blog itself, I’d like to do a short personal and professional review of 2012.

2012 has been an amazing year. We’ve grown ForgeRock at an incredible pace, doubling the staff, globally as well as in France. We’ve moved to new offices, with some extra space to welcome additional stars to our band (yes, we’re still hiring and looking for developers with excellent Java programming skills). We’ve made available 3 releases of OpenDJ, 3 of OpenIDM and 1 major release of OpenAM. However we missed our target of releasing OpenDJ 2.5. With the growth of the team and the company, we’ve made the OpenDJ release more ambitious than originally planned, adding a REST/Json to LDAP service, to facilitate the development of applications that need to access the data. All of it should be available in the coming months.

Blogging wise, I’m satisfied with the ratio of articles published until July, then the workload has impacted my ability to write as often as I would like… Part of the new year resolutions is to resume posting here at a regular pace, similar or better than in 2012. I hope you will enjoy reading and joining the discussion…

Now with the annual report :

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 34,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 8 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.

ForgeRock.com 2.0 !

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ForgeRock website has just received a new facelift. Check it out !
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ForgeRock France 2nd Anniversary

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ForgeRock France was officially formed on October 25th, and so last week we marked our second anniversary.
In the past 2 years, we’ve grown from 1 to 4, to now 7 employees, and we’re still looking for talented software engineers for our research and development center in Montbonnot, France (near Grenoble, just on the edge of the Alps). We have opened positions for Java developers, Quality engineers and experts in Identity and Access Management. If you’re interested, check our website and apply from there.
But more important than the growth of the French part of ForgeRock, I’m really excited by the company as a whole. We’ve grown so much in every way since we’ve started, and it’s visible :

ForgeRock team as of end of September 2012, during our company meeting in Greece.

ForgeRock Party at JavaOne 2012

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Thanks to all the developers from our open source projects and communities, all the customers and friends that attended the party that ForgeRock threw yesterday on the side of the JavaOne conference. We had lots of fun seeing you, discussing and raising toast to the good old times or to the great futures.

A special thanks as well to James Gosling, father of the Java programming language and supporter of ForgeRock, for showing up and raising the level of the party to an All Stars game !

You can find the photo album of the party on Facebook.

Another nice ForgeRock event

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Yesterday, on the side of the JavaOne and OOW conferences, we had an executive round table with selected partners, customers and future customers. The event started with a 30 minutes speech by Scott McNealy, Sun founder and former CEO, also active supporter of ForgeRock.

Scott touched on the values and benefits of open source software, gave a top 12 reasons why you know your Identity and Access Management solution is not open source and talked briefly about his new company Wayin.

Mike Wilson, VP and CISO at McKesson, presented how McKesson has started to use ForgeRock Open Identity Stack for several projects and the benefits of our solution.

Thanks Scott, Mike and all for your participation.

In San Francisco for a week

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I’ve arrived in San Francisco, where I will be staying for a week, attending and speaking at JavaOne, and meeting with customers, partners and friends.

A view from the apartment

Meeting ForgeRock during JavaOne / OOW

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If you want to meet ForgeRock and you’re in the San Francisco bay during JavaOne and Oracle Open World, there will be several opportunities to meet some of us: our CEO, our Sales team, some of our developers or myself.

Sunday September 30th:

I will be participating in the JUG Leaders meetings and discussions as well as the GlassFish ones (when schedule allows). Later, you can find me at the GlassFish and Friends Party from 8pm to 10pm at The Thirsty Bear.

Monday October 1st:

JavaOne attendees should be able to see me during the conference. I will be part of a panel discussion on Open Source Identity and Access Management solutions, from 5:30pm to 6:15pm.


Following that, some ForgeRock employees and I will be at the 2nd Annual Solaris Family reunion from 7:00pm to 11:00pm. The event, part of the ZFS Day, is free, but please register here.

 

Tuesday October 2nd:

ForgeRock logoCome and meet the developers and other members of the open source projects supported by ForgeRock. We’re having a Beer Burst party from 5:00pm until 8:30pm at The House of Shields. Please register through eventbrite so that we know how many to expect.

Rest of the week…

Otherwise, throughout the week, I will be most of the time at the JavaOne conference or in the ForgeRock San Francisco offices with the local team. Please send me an email or message me on Twitter (@LudoMP) to arrange a meeting.  I will be leaving California for New York on Monday, October 8th.

I hope to see a large number of people from the OpenDJ, OpenAM or OpenIDM community, other open source projects, ex-coworkers, future customers, and friends during my stay.

ForgeRock Identity…

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ForgeRock logoEach company has its own culture, influenced by leadership, the founders and the employees. I ‘m not trying to describe ForgeRock company’s culture, one has to live it to understand, but being a global company with offices in Oslo (Norway), Bristol (UK), Grenoble (France), San Francisco and Portland (USA), and employees in many other countries such as New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Belgique, Hungary, etc, is a big part of our identity. Then, there are objects that are building the company’s identity, and you will find them everywhere. At ForgeRock, among other things, we have the “Orange Couch”.

Oslo:

Grenoble:

Portland /Vancouver:

And the home office version in  South Africa:

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OpenDJ 2.4.6 is now available

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As few days after an important milestone for OpenDJ, the open source LDAP directory server in Java, I’m happy to announce that a new bug fix release of  the 2.4 series has just been made available. OpenDJ 2.4.6 is an update release of the OpenDJ project and improves reliability and performances with large groups and entries, as well as very large databases. The full details about the release have been posted in the OpenDJ 2.4.6 Release Notes. Upgrading to this release is recommended for everyone running earlier versions. For additional features and bug fixes, please use OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1.

The release is built out of revision 8102 of the b2.4 branch of the code repository.

As usual, you can find every thing on the OpenDJ Downloads page:

The draft documentation for OpenDJ, and more specifically the Administration Guide, has been updated on the OpenDJ project site, still on the track for an accurate, reviewed version for OpenDJ 2.5.

Feedback is important to us and you can participate on the IRC channel, the mailing lists or join our community.

Enjoy !