Business Readiness Rating (BRR) is a proposed rating system for use by open source software community. It is hoped that the system will address testing and reliability requirements important in the enterprise environment, sharing and reducing the perceived TCO of open source software. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a type of calculation designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs as well as benefits related to the purchase of computer software or hardware. ...
The system is currently in an RFC phase. A Request for Comments (RFC) document is one of a series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards very widely followed by both commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. ...
Sponsors include Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, CodeZoo, SpikeSource, and Intel. Carnegie Mellon West is a branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in the heart of Silicon Valley on Moffett Field near Mountain View in San Francisco, California. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (founded 1968) is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...
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