[14794] in Kerberos
Re: Death of CyberSafe Kerberos products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Alsop)
Mon Jul 30 09:24:54 2001
From: Tim.Alsop@UK.CyberSafe.com (Tim Alsop)
Date: 30 Jul 2001 06:16:52 -0700
Message-ID: <3d0adce.0107300516.3763b34d@posting.google.com>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Sorry for my posting of this message in this way, but I wanted to set
expectations and explain the situation since I work for CyberSafe and
am activly involved in this authenticaiton product project.
There are indeed plans to change the way CyberSafe develop, support
and sell the TrustBroker, ActiveTRUST and Challenger products. The
future development will be ongoing, responsive to existing customer
needs and allow the products to be developed and sold into new
markets. Please email me if you want to know more.
Watch our for upcoming press release ...
t0722@pobox.com wrote in message news:<Gz5bO4V65LdZoGvhbsdd28Ju8eFz@4ax.com>...
> I have been informed by a long-time contact at CyberSafe Corporation
> that they will be abandoning their Kerberos-related products, which
> are not providing any profit for the company. I am told that they are
> negotiating with another company to either purchase the product and
> the people who support it, or provide support for a fee. However,
> especially considering today's economy and the low rate of adoption of
> the product, this is by no means a sure thing.
>
> I would be interested in hearing from any other CyberSafe customers
> who are wrestling with the issue of how to support this product, how
> to convert to alternative products, or abandon the protocol
> altogether. I'll post a summary of responses (if any) to
> comp.protocols.kerberos.
>
> Pardon the crossposting. These are the groups in which an article
> which mentions CyberSafe has appeared recently.
