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IBM’s ‘multi-billion-dollar opportunity’ securing open-source software

In its first three weeks, Lightwell has made 7,500 open-source patches available to clients.

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In response to Anthropic’s Mythos model announcement in early April, IBM and Red Hat unveiled Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment to help enterprises secure open-source software, at the end of May.

Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chairman, president and CEO, said the addressable opportunity for open-source software security is in the multiple billions of dollars. “Whether it turns out to be that the TAM (total addressable market) for the open-source protection here is $5 billion or $10 billion or

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