Tag: Open Source

Commercial sits (sic) sick of Firfox (sic)

aka More on browser wars …

WebSideStory publishes regular browser market share numbers. So do OneStat, XiTi, W3Schools, and others. The latest contribution (though the company says it’s been tracking the data since 1997) is the July Browser Market Share White Paper that Janco’s IT Productivity Center plans to publicize Thursday with a press release, which reads in part:

“The positive glow on Firefox was dulled in April with the identification of some security gaps in Firfox (sic). While still maintaining its number 2 position, Firefox seems to have lost its momentum….Netscape’s release of version 8 has become a non-event. According to our data, Netscape continues to lose market share.”

The top five browsers, according to Janco: IE with 85 percent, Firefox with 9 percent, Mozilla with 3 percent, AOL with 1 percent, and Netscape with 1 percent.

While these numbers aren’t radically different from those in other recent surveys, it’s worth noting the company’s statement that they derive “from commercial sits (sic) which a (sic) focus on business to business activity.”

Netscape and AOL could point out no one considers business-to-business activity the wellspring of their target market.

Janco, for its part, could hire a copyeditor.

[Via CNET News.com]

LinuxWorld | Open source vs. Windows: security debate rages

LinuxWorld | Open source vs. Windows: security debate rages:

In its report, ‘Securing Open Source Infrastructure,’ Burton Group dispels any notion that open source software is inherently more secure simply because more people can look at it.
‘Experience shows this simply isn’t true,’ the research firm states, calling it ‘the myth of more eyes,’ citing case after case where no one spotted critical flaws in open source code.
Burton Group also points out the potential for developers placing back doors in open source code, and that when it comes time for the open source community to fix the inevitable vulnerabilities, businesses using it might come to rely on the ‘whim of individuals rather than organizations they are more accustomed to dealing with,’ Burton Group notes. The firm adds that dealing with traditional vendors isn’t necessarily any better.

[Via Peter O’Kelly’s Reality Check]