Derni�rement un rapport sur la s�curit� compar�e de OSS et MS a fait des vagues
1/ Linux Poised for Desktop Failure: Gartner (ZDNet Australia) http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-11-16-006-26-NW-DT-SW Voir les TRES nombreuses r�ponses � l'article. 2/ "Study: Linux' Security Problems Outstrip Microsoft's" http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19996.html J'aimerais citer une r�f�rence concernant l'opinion d'un domaine (bioscience, industrie pharmaceutique...) qui jongle avec des quantit�s gigantesque de donn�es, et o� la STABILITE + SECURITE sont de la toute premi�re importance. Eux ne peuvent pas se contenter de campagnes de propagande pour fonder leurs d�cisions. ================================================================== developerWorks: Open Source in the Biosciences http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-11-19-006-26-OS-BZ-HE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (...) Beyond this progress, though, open source offers biosciences three significant advantages that Big Pharma has only begun to appreciate: security, strategic ownership, and extensibility. Security matters to Big Pharma. Fines paid for mishandling medical and research data are a matter of public record. As Bernard P. Wess Jr., president of Perseid Software Ltd., observes, "The computer industry has been poor in quality control." Until recently, bioscience has reacted to this by going more proprietary, in a search for someone to sue. There's plenty of evidence, though, that open source has at least as good a record as proprietary vendors in delivery of high-quality, and particularly high-security, programs. Recent events in election vote-tallying and national security affairs have called into question whether proprietary programs can ever be trusted for sensitive matters. Expect dramatic events on this front over the next year, as bioscience companies take drastic steps to improve their data security. (...) -- Bonne journ�e - Have a good day, Alain +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr Alain EMPAIN Bioinformatique, G�n�tique Mol�culaire B43, | Fac. M�d. V�t�rinaire, Univ. de Li�ge, Sart-Tilman / B-4000 Li�ge | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WORK:+32 4 366 3821 Fax: +32 4 366 4122 GSM:+32 497 701764 | HOME:+32 85 512341 -- Rue des Martyrs,7 B-4550 Nandrin _______________________________________________________ Linux Mailing List - http://www.unixtech.be Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.unixtech.be/mailman/listinfo/linux Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] IRC: efnet.unixtech.be:6667 - #unixtech
