Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable? (Was: Challenging SQL Query Problem. Can you solve it?)
Date: 09 Jan 2006 08:28:50 -0500
Message-ID: <nm9y81pedil.fsf_at_all-night-tool.mit.edu>
Alexander Schreiber <als_at_usenet.thangorodrim.de> writes:
> Add backdoors and things get even more interesting. One commercial
Quite true. It's a good thing the Sarbanes-Oxley statute (a U.S. law,
not an international law, by the way) does not require companies to
trust Oracle et al more than they trust their DBA. However, the statute
does seem to leave it up to auditors to determine what constitutes
appropriate controls. I'm curious as to what auditor told DA Morgan
that he had to use a closed-source product that is supposed to be
tamper-proof. KPMG hasn't told my employer anything like that.
> database (ISTR it was Interbase) shipped with a backdoor for years that
> only got discovered (and removed) when the code finally went Open
> Source.