"Do you already have O365? Yes? Then you already have Teams!"
That's a hard place to sell a competing solution to =)
And that's just sales talk. It says ADFS needs multiple servers, which it doesn't. At least it depends on your deployment model. And whether AD running on another server constitutes "multiple servers" (of course just as true for Okta).
It also says Okta runs in the cloud. The implication is that ADFS doesnt. Well, like anything, it does.
The remainder talks about low TCO, deployment speed, simplifying AD complexity, and the cloud. All of which are rather subjective.
I say all of this having done some very complex ADFS deployments - at the extreme using Chip & PIN authN, and authR from client workstations assumed to be compromised.
So given the above I'd love to find a compelling and unbiased comparison. Including featureset.
[1] https://www.okta.com/resources/whitepaper/why-choose-okta-vs...
This either shows that Slack's "email is dead" marketing strategy was very effective (did an important job during a specific period of early growth and they have now moved on) or very ineffective (their main proposition completely passed you by).
IT went as far as remotely disabling the use of zoom after months of pleading with people not to use it.
This was ostensibly done for security reasons (citing zoom bombing, of all things, coz it was in the news).
When teams had a raft of really bad zero days, of course, nobody in IT batted an eye.
MS reaaaallly got its hooks in to that place.
It made me wonder how startups are supposed to compete with this type of thing. Zoom was free and better liked and it still got shut down.
I don't think this is without basis? Zoom got some bad press. Unsure if Teams is any better.
Zoom apps sending data to Facebook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792
Zoom lying about e2ee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25044254
Zoom installer on macOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706650
Zoom rolling its own crypto https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494
I remember the Facebook thing alone getting about as much airtime as MS's three teams zero days despite being insignificant by comparison.
E2E encryption that isn't properly end to end is newsworthy but it isn't a good reason to justify selecting a competing product that doesn't even try.
