The four anchors of the open source world — Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python, or the so-called LAMP stack — proved most reliable in a study released Monday by Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. With the release of the study, which is part of an ongoing US$1.24 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coverity said it is establishing a new baseline for quality and security in open source software.
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Testers Find Major Open Source Packages Reliable
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 7, 2006 08:27 AMThe four anchors of the open source world — Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python, or the so-called LAMP stack — proved most reliable in a study released Monday by Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. With the release of the study, which is part of an ongoing US$1.24 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coverity said it is establishing a new baseline for quality and security in open source software.