There are 100,000+ OSS projects available for download today. It is not obvious which products are enterprise-ready and appropriate for your organization. Some open source software is ready for prime time and can support your infrastructure and applications 24x7. But, some open source software is not fully-featured, nor does it have an active community supporting it.
We evaluate OSS projects along the following key dimensions:
- Project Overall - how stable and fully-featured is the project?
- Feature Set, Substitutability, Integration, Robustness
- OSS Development Team/Stewardship - how strong is the team that has developed this software?
- Process, Contributors/Maintainers, History/Roadmap
- User Community - how extensive and active is the user community around this product?
- Process, Contributors/Maintainers, History/Roadmap