Open source applications Keep You Safe
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| Wolbrom says almost every technology that Keep You Safe is built on is open
| source, including the numerous custom applications he and his partner built
| to encrypt and store clients' data. Everything sits on top of a classic LAMP
| architecture: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
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| [...]
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| Wolbrom highly recommends using open source to launch any kind of online
| business. "It's going to give you the lowest expense-to-deliverable ratio
| that you're ever going to find. And that's the key thing about open source --
| it's just so much less expensive to build anything. It's one of the biggest
| benefits."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/132245
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Open source risky? Nah. Just if you hire an attorney who doesn't grok it
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| the "risk" of open source is no greater, and is generally far less, than
| the risk of using proprietary software.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/open_source_ris.html
Is new technology worth the risk?
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| Irish businesses are holding back from taking advantage of
| modern technologies because they are concerned about potential
| risks.
|
| According to new research from CA, 100 per cent of Irish IT managers
| surveyed said risk-related concerns were enough to stop them
| implementing new technologies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/29/risky_technology/
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
|
| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
Putting risk back on the vendor, not the customer
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| Back to faith. In open source, risk shifts to the vendor, because there
| is no upfront license fee, just the ongoing support and maintenance. As
| such, if the open source vendor fails to deliver ongoing value, you
| dump them. Period. And if the product is great but the support is not,
| you can go to one of their SIs or others to get support.
|
| Yes, this puts a lot of risk on open source vendors. No, it's not easy.
| But yes, it is a dramatically better value proposition for enterprise
| buyers. No question.
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| Enterprises should stop paying Monopoly Money (licenses) to vendors.
| They should pay for value, not licenses.
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http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/10/putting-risk-back-on-vendor-not.html
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