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Model is a vital tool for planning open source success" |
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Craig Murphy, Chief Technical
Officer, Sabre Holdings |
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Choosing the Right Open Source Product: Don't
Leave it to Chance
As open source use in your organization moves
from an informal, tactical initiative to a central part of
your IT infrastructure, it's no longer enough to rely on hearsay
to decide which products to use.
The key issue for mainstream IT organizations
regarding open source is to assess which are the right products
to solve their problems. It's important that these decisions
use a structured process to objectively perform assessments
-- a process that evaluates open source products in all critical
dimensions: software, support, documentation, training, integration,
and service availability. Only with a complete evaluation
tool can you be confident you are choosing the right products
for your organization.
The Open Source Maturity Model™ (OSMM)
is a formal process to assess the maturity level of open source
software. Developed by Navica, the OSMM is itself open source,
freely available for any organization to use in their open
source work.
Here's what one well-known analyst firm said
about the OSMM:
| "The Open Source Maturity
Model is by far the easiest to use and the best documented" |
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Assessing Open Source
Software Projects, Burton Group Report, October
14, 2005 |
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Learn More About the Open Source Maturity Model
There are several resources available to you
to learn more about the OSMM. You can read more about the
OSMM in this overview.
In addition, you can download an OSMM whitepaper.
It describes why open source poses a challenge to traditional
IT processes, introduces the concept of open source maturity
and discusses its importance, and presents a thorough introduction
to the OSMM. To download the whitepaper, please click here.
The OSMM is described thoroughly in Succeeding
with Open Source (Addison-Wesley, 2005), authored by
Navica's CEO, Bernard Golden. You can learn more about the
book here, and order it
here.
Use the Open Source Maturity Model
The OSMM is open source and you are welcome
to use it freely throughout your organization. You can download
a complete set of OSMM templates here.
These templates are provided at no charge, and
are distributed under the Academic Free License, Version 2.1.
To learn more about the AFL, click here.
Open Source Maturity Model is a trademark of
Navica.
Download Open Source Maturity Model Assessments
Here are OSMM assessments that have been submitted
to share the evaluation with others. Please feel free to download
these assessments for your use.
Learn more about open source from Navica
Navica's CEO, Bernard Golden, writes a monthly
newsletter of commentary on open source. It is must-reading
throughout the open source industry. Get it delivered to your
mailbox, too. Sign up here.
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