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SEP should stop using 3rd party and open-source products due to lack of updates

Created: 26 Sep 2009
Terabyte Computers's picture
6 Agree
3 Disagree
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SEP's reliance on 3rd party & open-source software like Apache, Tomcat, Java, and Sybase are putting users at risk due to the lenghty time between updates and that even when updates ship the exe's and dll's in the 3rd party apps are often not the most current builds.  It's only a matter of time before one of these gets hit and breaks SEP.  This wasn't ever a problem with SAV and given that pretty much 99.99% of users run Windows clients and servers why do they need any cross-platform capablities.  Furthermore, with 12.0 SEP went to Apache but still requires IIS which WASTES another 140MB of RAM and puts that server at additional risk from Apache vulnerabilities.  Finally, the fact that we can't always run the latest build of Java if we want to use SEPM is unacceptable.