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Okta is closing our account because we're Colombian

6 pointsby jasaloover 4 years ago
Okta decided they would no longer sell to customers in Colombia and Venezuela. They think both economies are the same just because we&#x27;re geographically next to each other. While Venezuela has an &#x27;authoritarian-based&#x27; economy, Colombia has had very healthy and close economic and diplomatic ties with the US, for decades now. We&#x27;re one of their closest allies, actually.<p>Our CEO tweeted (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;davidpelaez&#x2F;status&#x2F;1331653460027117569) to our ambassador and foreign officials about this situation but they don&#x27;t seem to pay a lot of attention. Meanwhile, Okta still doesn&#x27;t consider this as a big misjudgement on their behalf: considering Colombia and Venezuela as &#x27;the same thing&#x27;, for whatever reasons or prejudices they have.<p>Any product alternatives are welcome, as well as help in making this message&#x2F;complaint reach further.

4 comments

bhwhiteover 4 years ago
Hey, Brandon With JumpCloud here — we do indeed have customers in Colombia, we even have support engineers there. You can give us a try for free at either <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jumpcloud.com&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jumpcloud.com&#x2F;demo</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;console.jumpcloud.com&#x2F;signup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;console.jumpcloud.com&#x2F;signup</a>.
trevorishereover 4 years ago
We switched to Azure AD for SSO (already had it for M365 regardless). We found more apps had OIDC support on AAD for the ones we used (40+, so admittedly small).<p>Plus, Microsoft doesn&#x27;t charge anything for MFA, unlike the $6&#x2F;user that Okta was going to charge.
mtmailover 4 years ago
jumpcloud was recommended in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25204048" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25204048</a>
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dalmo3over 4 years ago
Not that I care, but you should provide sources of your claims if you want people to take your side.