Comments on: LAMP lights the way in open-source security

U.S. government-sponsored analysis finds that the most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs.

[Broward Horne]

LAMP Meme Rising

As predicted and posted one year ago -

http://www.realmeme.com/Main/miner/technology/LAMPlinuxDejanews.png


LAMP is one of the issues confronting J2EE -

http://www.realmeme.com/Main/savingj2ee/index.jsp

[Captain_Spock]

How Does This "LAMP lights the way..."

... to show the projected "economic" expectations of countries around the world; also, when will the 90% plus world market-share start to use these LAMPs to see the performances! ;-)

[booboo1243]

Lighting the way for Windows users too...

LAMP is used for web-based applications, which means anything created on it is also available to Windows users. You can also run Apache, MySQL and Python/Perl/PHP on Windows (WAMP).

Now please stop with the junk about Windows being used by the majority on the desktop so it must be better than Linux running as a web server.

[booboo1243]

Lighting the way for Windows users too...

LAMP is used for web-based applications, which means anything created on it is also available to Windows users. You can also run Apache, MySQL and Python/Perl/PHP on Windows (WAMP).

Also, Apache is used on 70% on the web's servers, meaning that at some point you must've come across a web site running on LAMP (look for web sites that have .php instead of .html).

Now please stop with the junk about Windows being used by the majority on the desktop so it must be better than Linux running as a web server.

[booboo1243]

When MS doesn't sponser a study, the truth is told.

But I'll be if M$ got word of this study they were sure trying to pay people off.

[barneysmith]

Head out of the sand

Fred, before you start bagging other people?s mastery of the English language and making broad sweeping claims based on your own insecurity I suggest that you read the story correctly. This story has nothing to do with Microsoft as only Open Source products were compared.

In fact you could even argue that it highlights that the open source community does not have a solution to the challenges of writing secure software. If all bugs are shallow and the OSS community are committed to fixing the non sexy facets of a solution then why does the US government have to spend millions helping them.

Security is an incredibility hard problem to solve and to be honest some of the OSS claims are fundamentally flawed. Have a look at http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/10923_626641_1

It is also interesting to note that many OSS products like mySQL only stay afloat because they sell licensed versions of their software (66% of their revenue) which may give them more money to spend on engineering internally themselves.
http://www.tampatech.com/services/business_factors_in_oss_database_companies.htm