Business Readiness of Open Source Tools
Vedant Vyawahare
Objective: When a business considers using an open-source tool, there are multiple factors that need to fit the business use case to move ahead. A quality product has multiple factors like relevant features, good customer support, a good roadmap, and a lot more. It’s important for companies to trust that they can use the tool for a long time.
Outcome: We look at these factors to give the tool a score that tells you how viable the product is for a business use case.
- Commercial Cloud Offerings - For the Business use-case
- Investment Details - For longevity of the Product
- Future Product Roadmap - For Product Development
The Business Readiness Score measures the tool’s readiness for business adoption. A higher score indicates more readiness, commercial offerings, strong financial backing, and a clear development plan.
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Sama Carlos Samame
The success cases and existing customers of these projects are crucial. Many customers prefer not to be guinea pigs, and the best way to trust a new product is through referrals from their peers (other companies).
kishore rajendra
I would also look at if this new open-source tool has good community that fosters collaborative development among members, their participation etc..
More reputed collaborators committing code regularly means health roadmap. Github also has Pulse where you can see commits, etc..
Like we look at github stars, forks, Pull issues created etc..
Some projects also have a Test campaign that does automated testing to ensure each iterative release does not introduce new bugs / break backwards compatibility if someone switches to a newer version.