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Is open source software bad for business?
Jul 21, 2008, 15 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (5059 reads)

(Other stories by Davey Winder)

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Not following enterprise-level change control standards is a big and costly problem for business. Jennifer Bayuk, an independent security consultant and former CISO of Bear Stearns, reckons that there is a "hidden cost for the enterprise" in using open source because businesses will have to "test and patch for security bugs they don't anticipate.""

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The press release that came out from For ...   Read a better version of this story   
Sean Kerner
Jul 21, 2008, 15:16:22
 
The company who did this study claims to ...   No content here.   
Rainer Weikusat
Jul 21, 2008, 15:23:44
 
Yeah,risk that they will actually save s ...   Oh yeah   
George
Jul 21, 2008, 15:28:17
 
The article makes a great title, but is  ...   waste of time   
Evan
Jul 21, 2008, 16:17:57
 
Can the author please list for me what t ...   "enterprise" = horrible   
me
Jul 21, 2008, 16:18:37
 
So, any system should be wisely secured. ...   "assess, remediate and prevent"   
Spanky
Jul 21, 2008, 17:33:35
 
While the company, Fortify, has a vested ...   Messenger vs. Message   
JJS
Jul 21, 2008, 18:13:02
 
> While the company, Fortify, has a vest ...   Re: Messenger vs. Message   
Rainer Weikusat
Jul 22, 2008, 09:59:29
 
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