Business Readiness Rating
Encyclopedia
Business Readiness Rating (BRR) is a proposed rating system for use by open source
software community. It is hoped that the system will address testing and reliability requirements important in the enterprise environment, sharing and reducing the perceived TCO
of open source software.
The system is currently in an RFC
phase.
Sponsors include Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Center for Open Source Investigation, CodeZoo, SpikeSource
, and Intel.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software community. It is hoped that the system will address testing and reliability requirements important in the enterprise environment, sharing and reducing the perceived TCO
Total cost of ownership
Total cost of ownership is a financial estimate whose purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system...
of open source software.
The system is currently in an RFC
Request for Comments
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phase.
Sponsors include Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Center for Open Source Investigation, CodeZoo, SpikeSource
SpikeSource
SpikeSource specialized in automated software testing, and tested several business models to monetize that expertise. These included the popular testgen4web tool for scripted web site testing, offering open source software that had undergone regression testing, pre-integrated open-source software...
, and Intel.