The biggest threat to open source in 2009

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quote::Palamida Standard Edition is an application security solution designed for organizations primarily concerned about identifying and remediating vulnerabilities associated with undocumented use of open source software. Standard Edition provides a complete inventory of open source components, including detailed intelligence about associated security vulnerabilities. Accurate detection ensures thorough analysis of software composition and management of risks associated with open source usage within mission critical applications and products.

So that would be undocumented Open Source software on what Operating System? It can't be Linux, because Linux is Open source Software, and the Open Source applications that run on it are documented, they are also updated automatically by the package manager, either per desktop, in the case of stand alone Linux systems, or under the control of the System Administrator, from a local repository, in the case of Enterprise systems.

So we must be talking about the abysmal way in which Windows handles updates of 3rd party software, be it Proprietary or Free Open Source Software, where the vendor is responsible for ensuring that patches and updates are streamed to the individual desktop. So that when this is turned off for Site administration purposes, there is no controlled way, as there is with Linux, to ensure that updates of any sort are applied to Windows desktops.

The best solution to this problem is to replace all those Windows Desktops with Linux desktops.


Quote:: The story you are about to read is true. A name was changed as an anniversary present.

Dragnet badgeThe name is Friday. Theresa Bui-Friday. She???s a marketing executive. Carries a laptop.

Monday, November 3, 5:30 PM. Ms. Bui-Friday is on the phone talking about her employer, Palamida, for whom she is vice president of product marketing.

Just the facts. They started out selling services to identify licenses on open source in enterprises, then started tracking security vulnerabilities in same.

It's never stated in the article, but it's obvious from the context, that the problem is not actually {Free] Open Source Software, which in the context of Linux is updated in a timely fashion automatically. The problem is precisely what the problem has always been.... Microsoft Windows, and the fact that Microsoft has made the security problems that plague Windows, Someone else's problem.

Posted by: tracy anne   Posted on: 01/01/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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