Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
A standardised test on knowledge of security programming may soon be on the way for software developers.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
With versions on most Web platforms, a library of databases and Web/XML services, PHP may be the next-generation Web language for your network.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.
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