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LAMP Most Secure Open-Source Web Environment

Newspaper current event by Rhodizzle on 08 March 2006, tagged as computing and internetnetworking

The Department of Homeland Defense contracted Standford University, Coverity, and Symantec to do a bug analysis against an open source development environment referred to as LAMP (Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and either PHP, Perl, or Python). The project found that this combination of open-source GPL software had the least amount of bugs and security risks per 1000 lines of code than 32 other open-source projects that were also analysed. Results of the study are hosted on Coverity's website, and registration is required to view it. No Windows32 or Microsoft products were tested to compare against, only other open-source projects.

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Windows dodged a bullet by shaferr :: NR4

Hmm probably a good thing no Windows platforms were tested. It might have really put the issue into perspective.

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