posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 5:43 AM
by
stefandemetz
Is Oracle the new king of bugs? Unpatchable the new slogan?
I always thought that many companies (and Open Source vendors) were hiding behind Microsoft's security blunders, but themselves didn't have a trasparent security oriented development lifecycle and just used it as marketing material. Now it's showing not only in the news, but also in statistics on sites like Secunia and SecurityFocus. In 2002/2003 Microsoft had it's peak as the first vendor exposed due to it's size and pervasivess, but since then the bug count has been slowing for MS and increasing for all other. Go and check yourself IIS vs Apache, MSSQL vs MYSQL or Oracle, ASP.NET vs PHP on those security sites.
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5808928.html
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=160368,00.asp