To decide if open source applies to one’s project requirements is to investigate if there is an active community supporting it? Does the license seem suitable for the project development? Is the framework being used popularly? An estimation and review… Continue Reading
I agree with the security problem of OSS. According to Black Duck’s latest 2017 Open Source 360 Degree survey, “the effective management of open-source is not keeping pace with the increase in use.” The survey included 819 IT professionals, system architects, security experts and software developers from US and EMEA. Last year saw a remarkable rise in the usage of open source softwares by companies, confirmed by 60% of respondents of this survey. 55% believed that open source gives a boost to business innovation. Despite this, the concerns regarding security are there. 64% are worried about the disclosure of internal applications to misuse through weaknesses in open-source code, and 71% believe that using open-source may also reveal external apps to manipulate. There is also a… Continue Reading
Oracle and MySQL lead to an interesting discussion. Even though the latter is open source, still 97% of Fortune 100 companies use Oracle because of its easy deployment and database management. In the past decade, Oracle has acquired about 100… Continue Reading
“Regarding to the advantages and disadvantages of OSS, this model will continue to grow up and propagate in many sectors but the presence of the closed code software should still play an important role of solution deployment because many companies… Continue Reading
“Open source software can provide the organization with more effective and less expensive software alternatives provided they are properly managed”. I am in agreement with the above statement. OSS would be beneficial if the business is able to successfully “manage”… Continue Reading