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Facts on open source projects for decision-makers
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Posted in: QA, System architecture, hibernate, ohloh.net, open source.
Summary
Finding useful information about open source software projects can be tedious – especially when trying to find facts that your customers understand.
ohloh.net provides excellent, comparable meta information for open source projects and should be on every decision-makers favorites list.
Why this software and not another?
I often find the need to justify the use of a specific open source software. Why is is better than another, competing open source software? How much better is the community support? How many supporters does it have? How active is the project and how much effort was spend on it’s development? How about metrics for the code, and how do you compare software in general?
Those are about the most important questions i have to answer.
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