Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Succeeding with Open Source (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
Succeeding with Open Source (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
Licenses of Open Source Software and their Economic Values
SAINT-W '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops
A Systematic Approach to Evaluating Open Source Software
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
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The allure of free, industrial-strength software has many enterprises rethinking their open source strategies. However, selecting an appropriate open source software for a given problem or set of requirements is very challenging. The challenges include a lack of generally accepted evaluation criteria and a multitude of eligible open source software projects. The contribution of this work is a set of criteria and a methodology for assessing candidate open source software for fitness of purpose. To test this evaluation model, several important open source projects were examined. The results of this model were compared against the published results of an evaluation performed by the Defense Research and Development Canada agency. The proposed evaluation model relies on publicly accessible data, is easy to perform, and can be incorporated into any open source strategy.