The commercial name Oblix may refer either to a suite of software designed to manage authentication identity (especially in a web service

Web service

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...

 environment) or to the former company which developed that software.

History:
It was started in 1996 by Sandeep Johri, Kumar Vora and Nand Mulchandani and funded by seed investors. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ' is a world-leading venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal has called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms in the world...

 funded the Series A round in 1997. In 1999, Gordon Eubanks

Gordon Eubanks

Gordon Eubanks is a microcomputer industry pioneer who worked with Gary Kildall in the early days of Digital Research. Eubanks attended Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California...

 left Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

, then president and CEO, to become president and CEO of Oblix. Oblix was acquired by Oracle in March, 2005 and is now a part of Oracle.