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Jim Whitehurst is CEO and Chief Plumber at Red Hat
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| That's certainly borne out by the recent
| top500 supercomputer listings, where 91 per
| cent of the world's fastest supercomputers
| run some form of GNU/Linux (Windows runs on
| 1%), the fact that the open source Apache
| Web server well over half of the Web â as it
| has for the last 10 years - and the near-
| parity in Europe of Firefox's market share
| with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3229164/jim-whitehurst-is-ceo-and-chief-plumber-at-red-hat/?pn=1
Open source could be a success story, too: Red Hat CEO
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| Coming from an airline, the 42-year-old Mr
| Whitehurst is an unlikely CEO for a
| technology company, and more so, a company
| that makes profits from selling free
| software.
|
| When he left Delta, he was approached to do
| a lot of additional turnarounds, but Mr
| Whitehurst said rather than trying to fix
| something, he wanted to build something,
| where there was a buoyant canvas to be
| painted, and Red Hat fit that bill. Red Hat
| was also looking for someone from a non-tech
| background and Mr Whitehurstâs profile, with
| his interest in geeky stuff, matched it
| well.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Open-source-could-be-a-success-story-too-Red-Hat-CEO/articleshow/6122148.cms
Recent:
Open Source is Inherently More Secure, Says Red Hat
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| But in the closed source world, you have
| to trust your vendor completely. All you
| get to see are binaries, so you have no
| way of knowing how they were built.
| President Reagan was fond of saying to
| Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "Trust,
| but verify." With proprietary software,
| you simply have to trust.
|
| Microsoft, for example, pushes out
| security updates on the second Tuesday of
| every month. Bressers said they can't do
| that. Microsoft has the advantage of
| hiding security flaws and working on them
| at their leisure, but with open source
| software, that's not possible because
| everyone can see that there's a problem
| and they expect it to be fixed right away.
|
| And if a security hole isn't plugged
| quickly enough, you can fix it yourself,
| Bressers explained.
|
| An example of the power of open source is
| the ping of death bug. Back in the late
| 1990s someone figured out that if you send
| a giant ICMP packet to a computer, just
| about any computer, it will crash. The bug
| affected every operating system, routers,
| printers, etc. When the problem was
| discovered, the open source Linux
| operating system had the bug squashed in
| about 2 hours, Bressers recalled. The
| closed source operating system vendors,
| however, took days, weeks and even months
| to make and distribute a patch for the
| ping of death.
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http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3890616/Open-Source-is-Inherently-More-Secure-Says-Red-Hat.htm
Microsoft: 10,000 PCs hit with new Windows XP zero-day attack
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| Nearly a month after a Google engineer
| released details of a new Windows XP flaw,
| criminals have dramatically ramped up
| online attacks that leverage the bug.
|
| Microsoft reported Wednesday that it has
| now logged more than 10,000 attacks. "At
| first, we only saw legitimate researchers
| testing innocuous proof-of-concepts. Then,
| early on June 15th, the first real public
| exploits emerged," Microsoft said in a
| blog posting.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178768/Microsoft_10_000_PCs_hit_with_new_Windows_XP_zero_day_attack?taxonomyId=85
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