{"id":2856,"date":"2012-03-22T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:00:54","slug":"open-source-quality-often-trumps-proprietary-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-quality-often-trumps-proprietary-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source: OS Quality Often Trumps Proprietary Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

A decade ago most enterprises avoided Open Source software, but things have changed. \u00a0 Right now Open Source use at enterprises stands at higher than 75 percent, and Gartner predicts<\/a> that in just five years that 99 percent of enterprises will have adopted some amount of Open Source software. \u00a0So rather than Open Source being considered as a marginalized alternative to commercial software, Open Source is increasingly becoming the mainstream option.<\/p>\n

In a recent analysis that pitted source code taken from Open Source against source code from commercial systems, Open Source software came out on top. \u00a0The Coverity Scan Integrity project <\/a>examined 37 million lines of Open Source software and compared the quality of the code against 300 million lines taken from proprietary software.<\/p>\n

Zack Samocha<\/a>, Coverity Scan Project Director, said that\u00a0“The line between open source and proprietary software will continue to blur over time as open source is further cemented in the modern software supply chain… Open source projects are acting like commercial products. If I am a commercial company and I want to adopt open source, there are definitely projects out there that are trustworthy.”<\/p>\n

How did Coverity judge and compare code quality? \u00a0The Coverity Scan tool is automated and looks for software defects that includes things like:<\/p>\n