How business learned to love open source

By Jim Carr on Nov 9, 2005 4:23 PM
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More and more proprietary security tools use some open-source code. What are the advantages for companies?

The line separating open-source software and commercial, packaged applications seems to have blurred. For evidence, just check out some of the widely used security tools available. Take Snort, for example. The de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention, the open-source Snort has been integrated into hundreds of commercial software solutions, including those from Sourcefire and VeriSign. Or consider Nagios, an open-source host, service and network-monitoring program. In addition to being widely available as standalone software, it is at the heart of Monitor, a $70,000 ...
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