The upper mentioned companies joined OpenID following the ideea that there should be an unique shareable database containing all the information of any user who ever registered on a website, portal, forum, etc.
The huge amount of private information would be stockpiled in an enormous database (why not mysql ?). If MySQL will be chosen to store the information i can only imagine what will that mean for Sun Microsystems, as we all know that now Sun practically owns MySQL.
Thinking that the enormous amount of information will be stored in a single place and that database that holds it will be queryied like millions of times per day leaves me with this question in mind: are we ready yet for such data processing ? Maybe. The ideea itself scares me as i think that if something might go wrong the consequences would be catastrophic for everyone.
Let us have a look at the good side of things though, as they will evolve very fast and this new technology would make our lifes a lot more easier. It could be possible that we already have an OpenID and don’t know it. If you are using the following services you already have one:
AOL- openid.aol.com/screenname
LiveDoor
- profile.livedoor.com/username
LiveJournal
- username.livejournal.com
Orange (France Telecom)
- http://openid.orange.fr/
SmugMug- username.smugmug.com
Technorati
- technorati.com/people/technorati/username
Vox- member.vox.com
WordPress.com- username.wordpress.com
If you don’t use the services mentioned above you can get an OpenID from myOpenID.com and in the meantime while you’re there find out more relevant information about OpenID.
I am looking forward to this matter and hope for the best.
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If you heard about mirroring (making duplicates of servers) than you should know that there can be only a minimal to NONE data loss. This is a commonly used technique for large important databases.