When The Going Gets Tough, Call On Open Source
There was a time not that long ago when one of the knocks on open source was that it was not scalable or "tough enough" for the biggest most demanding jobs. It was fine for personal use and fooling around, but if you wanted industrial strength, enterprise ready software, open source just wasn't up to it. That attitude has really been stood on its head recently.
It hit home for me a few weeks ago when I was interviewing some of the security folks from Akamai. Akamai was running a campaign and sponsoring the Security Bloggers Network, of which I am the founder and manager. In talking to Andy Ellis and Michael Smith of Akamai (you can listen to that conversation if you like below), they informed me that Akamai can carry up to 25% of the traffic on the Internet at any given moment in time. With that kind of traffic load, off-the-shelf commercial security products just couldn't fit the bill. Akamai had to basically create a lot of the security programs they use in house. According to Ellis and Smith, most of these solutions started by taking open source programs and customizing them to Akamai's industrial strength needs.
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