Business Readiness Rating (Open BRR) is one of several rating systems for
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
software. 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. It considers the quality of the product (e.g., security), the quality of the community supporting that product, and some
ISO 25010 characteristics (e.g.,
usability
Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience. In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a soft ...
).
Sponsors included
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Center for Open Source Investigation,
CodeZoo, SpikeSource, and
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
.
Similar rating systems include
OpenSource Maturity Model (OSMM), Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS), Evaluation Framework for Free/Open souRce projecTs (EFFORT), Qualification and Selection of Open Source software (QSOS) model, and Open Source Usability Maturity Model (OS-UMM).
References
External links
Business Readiness Rating
Free software culture and documents
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