I attended Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI) Adopting and Using Open Source Software Conference 2005 in Redwood Shores, California on September 7, 2005. Open Source is an area that is going to impact every area of software tremendously, and it is trend that every company needs to leverage going forward. It’s impressive that CMU has a center and conference on it. If you are not really familiar with open source, I think it is a good conference to checkout next year.

Here is just one small intereting take-away I got from the conference. I learned there are now initiatives like the Business Readiness Rating to rate software in an open and standardized way. As anyone who tries to use open source software quickly discovers, one of the hurdles is evaluating all the different alternatives. Obviously, you cannot use purchase price as a factor or a proxy of value. Now, of course, do things like openbrr need to be limited to just open source software?

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