Posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Open Source Still Looking to Shake off Concerns
NetworkWorld
Security and intellectual property issues remain despite exploding popularity. Although open source software has gained a place in enterprise networks alongside proprietary software, it can’t seem to shake doubts about security and intellectual-property issues that have long dogged the movement.
Open source software components are being worked into commercial software through tools such as Eclipse and NetBeans. The Linux operating system isn’t only becoming a corporate favorite, as is evident at Wall Street firms today, but middleware applications such as Geronimo, JBoss, MySQL and Hibernate also are becoming commonplace in the enterprise.
