README.md: "Similar Software", "who should use"

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## Who Should Use Dex? ## Who Should Use Dex?
**TODO** A non-exhaustive list of those who would benfit from using dex:
## Similar Software - Those who want a language/framework-agnostic way to manage authentication.
- Those who want to federate authentication from mutiple providers of differing types.
**TODO** - Those who want to manage user credentials (eg. username and password) and perform authentication locally
- Those who want to create an OIDC Identity Provider for multiple clients to authenticate against.
- Those who want any or all of the above in a Free and Open Source project.
## Connectors ## Connectors
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- Multiple backing Identity Providers - Multiple backing Identity Providers
- Identity Management - Identity Management
- Authorization - Authorization
## Similar Software
### [CloudFoundry UAA](https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa)
>The UAA is a multi tenant identity management service, used in Cloud Foundry, but also available as a stand alone OAuth2 server.
### [OmniAuth](https://github.com/intridea/omniauth)
OmniAuth provides authentication federation at the language (Ruby) level, with a [wide range of integrations](https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies) available.
### [Okta](http://developer.okta.com/product/)
Okta is a commercial product which is similar to dex in that for it too, identity federation is a key feature. It connects to many more authentication providers than dex, and also does the federation in the oppposite direction - it can be used as a SSO to other identity providers.
### [Shibboleth](https://shibboleth.net/)
Shibboleth is an open source system implementing the [SAML](https://www.oasis-open.org/standards#samlv2.0) standard, and can federate from a variety of backends, most notably LDAP.