Or at least, that’s what a recent study shows. According to the CDW Business Rearview Mirror survey, 73% of those who described themselves as “total geeks” reported double-digit average annual growth in their businesses over the past 5 years. Nearly half – 48% – of the tech savviest reported that their businesses reached the 100-employee milestone with in 5 years of launch, compared to just one-third of all survey respondents.
Since I first knew about openID it sounded like a tremendously great idea for me. I’ve wanted a distributed login system like this for years, but nothing is perfect. We all now the advantages: you aren’t tied to a single company to handle your data, are you?
Well, if you don’t want (or can’t or don’t know how) to setup your own openID server you will have to use a hosted system. Having one common authentication system for all the web services you use is a great thing, but we have to be aware this represents a single point of failure. I don’t rely on this system to get my work done, but this error shown above could have been a real problem for me if I had.
