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`OPEN SOURCE ISN'T NECESSARILY SAFER' (says Craig Mundie, Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft).

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| December 05, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From India Business Insight)

Craig Mundie, Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft, feels that open source is not necessarily more secure. Many decide on open source as a result of misguidance rather than on fact-based analysis.

Long latent bugs have repeatedly hit most well-known open source software.

In many cases, such software does not result in long-term cost advantage.

Acquisition cost of software is now only a small part of the total …

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