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Palamida Finds Security Tops List of Concerns Inhibiting Broader Open Source Adoption

While 75% of organizations expect decreased IT budgets in 2009, only 45% see open source as a solution. Security is cited as the top concern inhibiting broader open source adoption. However, a poll by Palamida found that 62.7% believe open source software is equal or almost equal in functionality and quality to commercial software. Palamida has compiled a list of 25 highly productive and cost-saving open source projects that organizations should consider to help trim engineering budgets, including Web 2.0 tools like Prototype, script.aculo.us, and jQuery.

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Palamida Finds Security Tops List of Concerns Inhibiting Broader Open Source Adoption

While 75% of organizations expect decreased IT budgets in 2009, only 45% see open source as a solution. Security is cited as the top concern inhibiting broader open source adoption. However, a poll by Palamida found that 62.7% believe open source software is equal or almost equal in functionality and quality to commercial software. Palamida has compiled a list of 25 highly productive and cost-saving open source projects that organizations should consider to help trim engineering budgets, including Web 2.0 tools like Prototype, script.aculo.us, and jQuery.

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Palamida Finds Security Tops List of Concerns

Inhibiting Broader Open Source Adoption


http://www.palamida.com/press-release/palamida-finds-security-tops-list-of-concerning-inhibiting-broader-open-source-adoption

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 16, 2008 -


Co mp a ny H ighlights 2 5 Hot Open S o u rce P r o jects th at Org aniz ation s C an Use
with Confidence Tod ay
S A N F R A N C I SCO, CA D e c e m b e r 16 , 2008 – Palamida, the leader in application security
for open source, today released the results of a new poll, finding that 75 percent of
organizations expect their IT budget to decrease either moderately or significantly in 2009,
but that only 45 percent view open source as a likely solution to the upcoming budget gap.
While this result may seem surprising in light of today’s economic pressures, the fact that 50
percent of respondents cite security as the number one concern around additional open
source adoption could indicate the cause.
The Palamida web poll was conducted between November 13 and November 21, 2008 and
included 177 respondents in senior IT, engineering, and security positions. Survey requests
were evenly distributed across financial services, insurance, technology, consumer goods and
services, biotech/pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, energy and government.
Response was concentrated in the financial and insurance sectors.
The poll also found a very positive perception of open source software functionality and
quality, with 62.7% of organizations believing that open source software is either equal or
almost equal to their commercial counterparts. This countered the list of concerns, which in
addition to security, included support costs and intellectual property risks as top three
concerns around open source use.
“In challenging economic times, internal application development teams absolutely should
be turning to open source to deliver higher quality software and Web applications with
fewer resources,” said Mark Tolliver, Palamida CEO. “Open source use is flourishing inside of
organizations, with applications built in the last five years, typically composed of 50 percent
or more open source content. Our experience is that open source communities are typically
very responsive to finding and fixing reported security problems – and that, coupled with a
proactive process for open source management via composition analysis, should reduce
security concerns.”
Palamida has compiled a list of 25 hot open source projects that organizations should be
using today in order to trim their engineering budgets. With experience in auditing billions
of lines of code for Fortune 100 as well as start-up companies, Palamida has seen some of
the most productive and cost-saving use of open source from market leaders across all
industries. The 25 open source projects, reviewed by Palamida, have proven to be among the
most reliable, innovative, and enterprise-ready open source projects. The list includes Web
2.0 enablers Prototype, script.aculo.us, Direct Web Remoting, Yahoo! User Interface, and
jQuery, that can save organizations substantial time and money in development. For further
details about these projects and the full list, please visit www.palamida.com/blog.
About Palamida, Inc.
Palamida provides the industry’s first application security solution exclusively for open
source software. The Palamida Enterprise Edition uses component-level analysis to quickly
identify and track undocumented code and associated security vulnerabilities, as well as
intellectual property and compliance issues. Using Palamida, organizations can cost-
effectively manage and secure mission critical Web and software applications. Customers
include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, among others.
For more information visit: www.palamida.com.

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