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Cloud Security: Proprietary vs Freeware DNS

From Mary Brown | September 25th, 2009

Toby Wolpe, of ZDNet UK writes about the commercial use of open source software and its impact on security. He discusses a solution that he argues is more secure.

Do you believe that the security profile of Nominum’s proprietary DNS solution is sufficiently superior to warrant the cost of moving away from freeware such as BIND?

How does this apply to the concept of the commercial use of open source software in general?


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