SearchOpenSource: BRRS Group Bringing Order to Open Source Chaos | Linux Today

SearchOpenSource: BRRS Group Bringing Order to Open Source Chaos

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 9, 2005

[ Thanks to Peter
Parker
for this link. ]

“In August, the Business Readiness Rating Standard (BRRS) was
founded to sort out projects so that the everyday IT guy wouldn’t
have to. With more than 100,000 OSS projects currently available on
SourceForge and similar repositories like Codehaus, Tigris,
Java.net, OpenSymphony–the list goes on–members of the group
believe their initiative could prove very valuable in 2006.

“Michael Goulde, an analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based
Forrester Research Inc. and member of the BRRS steering committee,
recently gave SearchOpenSource.com a progress report for the
group…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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