The Hurderos Project is devoted to developing an open-source and open-architecture approach to an enterprise class system for managing information delivery.
The goal of the project is to predicate the architecture of this system on a strong identity generation, management and protection model. The Hurderos Project seeks to address, as fundamental to this architecture, the need to premise IT architecture development on the concept of protecting the privacy of identity based information.
Consistent with an increasing industry focus on information as a service, grid-computing and other ubiquitous computing technologies the Hurderos Project has chosen a services oriented model for its management architecture.
The commoditization of server hardware and the growth and acceptance of the Linux operating system is leading to profound changes in how information delivery systems are managed. A fundamental tenant of the Hurderos Project team is that directory-enabled computing infra-structures will be critical to developing manageable information systems.Managing information delivery through such systems carries the risk of providing a centralized target for security intrusion. The Hurderos Project addresses this issue by implementing a directory schema strategy which provides an inherently secure system for directory based service authorization.
Consistent with a focus on decreasing the cost of ownership of information systems the Hurderos Project supports an open-architecture for managing service provisioning. The goal is to provide a platform which open-source and proprietary application vendors can use to enable centralized provisioning of services.
The Hurderos Project is committed to providing these architectural advancements through an open-source licensing strategy. The goal of this strategy is to provide a common and open-architecture for the next generation of open-source based enterprise class information systems.