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| Title: | Business Readiness Rating for Open Source Model |
| Advisor: | OpenBRR.org |
| Keywords: | Business Readiness, Evaluation |
| Abstract: | Evaluating software is a critical task for corporate IT managers, but potential users of open source software lack an easy, effective, and trustworthy process for decisionmaking. There is no widely used model for evaluation. This complicates open source adoption, as companies assessing open source software can rarely learn from each
other’s experiences.
SpikeSource, the Center for Open Source Investigation at Carnegie Mellon West, and Intel Corporation have developed the Business Readiness Rating model, which lets IT managers quickly make informed and educated decisions about open source software. This model also allows users to feed their evaluations back into the open
source community.
The calculation employed in the Business Readiness Rating model weights the factors that have proven to be most important for successful deployment of open source software in specific settings. Among these are functionality, quality, performance, support, community size, security, and others. The ... |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2038/351 |
| bibliographicCitation: | http://www.openbrr.org/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Economic Models
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| BRR_whitepaper_2005RFC1.pdf | Business Readiness Rating for Open Source: A Proposed Open Standard to Facilitate Assessment and Adoption of Open Source Software | 233Kb | Adobe PDF | View/Open | | GB_Expert_Letter_Open_Source_Maturity_Model_1.5.31.pdf | 'In order to be able to determine if an open source product is suitable for an organisation, Capgemini has developed the Open Source Maturity Model. | 147Kb | Adobe PDF | View/Open | | BRR_TEMPLATE_2005RFC1.xls | Template for applying the Business Readiness Rating for Open Source | 68Kb | Microsoft Excel | View/Open | | BRR_Worksheet_24Jul05_Mambo.xls | BBR Worked Example 01 | 63Kb | Microsoft Excel | View/Open | | BRR_Worksheet_24Jul05_WebGUI.xls | BBR Worked Example 02 | 61Kb | Microsoft Excel | View/Open | | BRR_Worksheet_25Jul05_Moodle.xls | BBR Worked Example 03 | 69Kb | Microsoft Excel | View/Open | | BRR_Worksheet_25Jul05_Sakai.xls | BBR Worked Example 04 | 69Kb | Microsoft Excel | View/Open |
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