Have you considered that your target audience perhaps doesn’t like being spammed by lowlifes who buy and sell their contact details?

Auth0 still has a ton of people working on it at Okta. If they’re facing execution problems, it’s not due to a lack of resources.

Auth0 and Okta serves two different market segments. You’d use Autho0 for your customers and Okta for your employees.

That’s why they bought Auth0 in the first place. They didn’t have a real offering for customer identity.

Having the entire software ecosystem concentrated in Amazon, Google and Microsoft is not at all a desirable state of affairs.

That was a brief chapter in Microsoft’s history. Satya Nadella stopped taking security seriously the day he got in.

I’m sure Peter Scully[1] donated to charity at some point, too, and doesn’t make him any less evil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully

It doesn’t matter. If the FSB knocks on their door and says “add this extra code to your builds or you’ll disappear into the basement of the Lubyanka”, what do you think they’ll say?

True, but we have the same issue with US-based software, or any closed source software really. At least here I can take the source code and check for myself, or let an AI, before building.

In fairness to Salesforce, it was the garbage third party apps in their ecosystem which got compromised and did the leaking, not Salesforce themselves.

> Maintaining one server room in the headquarters is something, but two servers rooms in different locations, with resilient power and network is a bit too much effort IMHO.

Speaking as someone who does this, it is very straightforward. You can rent space from people like Equinix or Global Switch for very reasonable prices. They then take care of power, cooling, cabling plant etc.

> Has anyone even built a two-story DC?

Every DC I’ve been in (probably around 20 in total) has been multi storey.

I experienced this first hand in 2014. We got to a point where drive-by exploit kits just weren’t shipping IE8, Java 6 or Windows XP payloads anymore.