Business Readiness Rating
Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD
The Business Readiness Rating is a proposed open standard that will “give companies a trusted, unbiased source for determining whether the open source software they are considering is mature enough to adopt”. I think this is an excellent idea. As we all know, there is enterprise grade software that is open source such as Linux itself, MySQL, Apache, Snort, Squid, and OpenBSD’s pf. Many large corporations use this software in production but there are other companies which may balk at using open source for various reasons including support and the fear that they’ll have to pay for the software in the future (silly, yes). I think one of the best things that could come out of the BRR is that companies will share the fact that they adopted software X so when other companies are presenting open source alternatives to the PHB’s they can show that other companies use software X in production.
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