> I will be extremely thankful if you could direct me to any scientific or > non-biased research and news regarding the following issues: > > The adoption of Open Source Systems in other western countries. > > The qualities of Open Source Systems as far as data security is > concerned.
There is the well known 'Mitre report': http://www.mitre.org/support/papers/tech_papers_01/kenwood_software/ Also, Maybe also the German government can be used as an example. I don't have any link ready, but seem to be quite clueful, they are trying to promote the use of open source software by the government, for various reasons, such as quality, security, vendor lock-in. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]