[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“A new Open Source evaluation model will be released during
LinuxWorld that will finally shed some long-over harsh light on the
key question: Can I use Open Source for that?“This new hard-nosed evaluation tool, called the Open Source
Maturity Model, will provide technical and non-technical IT
managers a step-by-step, empirical way to ‘score’ the
enterprise-readiness of any Open Source project. With SourceForge
now boasting some 70,000 projects, OSMM may be coming at just the
right time to help Open Source advocates to cut through the
clutter, without putting their own reputations on the line…”
Related Story:
IT
Manager’s Journal: How Companies Can Evaluate Whether Open Source
Will Work for Them(May 27, 2004)