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Story: Open source renders patching a problem

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On the other hand, the open source community continues to struggle with developing an integrated patch management solution

If you had not been living under a rock for 2 decades, you would have known that patch management is not a problem, especially for the "open source community".

Most administrators have little time to check for patches or read vulnerability notices — if they've even signed up to receive them. That's why it's essential to know exactly what you've deployed on your systems and to check regularly for updates for that software

What are you trying to do now ? Trying to teach sys admin their jobs ?
I bet that any sys admin managing web sites know that better than you. They even know that patch management for Open Source have never been a problem, which you don't.
Your statement that MS does a good job shows clearly where you come from.

Rather, I am campaigning for the open source market to address the problem of patch management and to integrate third-party software into its solution

You are campaining A decade too late. This has already been done.
Writers should at least know what they are talking about before "campaigning".
FYI, every Linux distribution package manager is dealing with patch management too, and they are pretty well integrated solutions, which can update 100s of servers in a go if you want, automatically or with notification.
Before talking about FOSS, you should get a clue.

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