Hardhats:
I havent heard any more responses to this note. you should check
http://west.cmu.edu and associated pages. CMU west is located at Moffett
Field south of SF and a check of the faculty will show Tony Wsserman as
Consulting Professor and Executive Director, COSI whom some of the more
ancient hardhats may recognize. Tony might be a good start in building the
solid information systems engineering foundation needed by the VistA and M
communities. I am sure Tony could have comments also about the evolution
of the language that might lead in productive directions. Productive
Browsing! and look for your comments.
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
I took a quick look at your white paper, and it all looks very interesting.
The criteria seem well thought out and reasonably objective. I fear that
many/most open source projects would not fare especially well by these
criteria, but that certainly does not mean they aren't sound selection
criteria (and for developers and architects, project goals). I will have to
look at this more closely.
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Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"It is foolish to answer a question that
you do not understand."
--G. Polya ("How to Solve It")
On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:31 AM, Earl Crane wrote:
All,
I wanted to pass along some news released today about a joint effort to
provide a rating system for open source software, which may be relevant to
the VistA project.
From http://www.openbrr.org/
"Business Readiness Ratings (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model
for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire
community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open
and standardized way. BRR is a community initiative that is being sponsored
by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, O'Reilly
CodeZoo , SpikeSource and Intel."
"BRR will give companies a trusted, unbiased source for determining whether
the open source software they are considering is mature enough to adopt. "
This is relevant to all of us us as the VistA project matures, especially
with the upcoming release of VistA-Office. VistA will begin/has begun
competing with a wide range of other commercial and open-soruce software,
and the latest media attention will continue to thrust VistA into the lime
light. In order to maintain the project as strong, supported, and credible,
we need differentiating factors to demonstrate our market leadership.
"The rating system has 12 categories, including functionality, usability,
quality, security, documentation and technical support. Each category is to
be rated 1 to 5."
I suggest that acquiring an early and high rating from the openBRR program
for VistA will continue to win credibility and encourage adoption for the
program. I would like to throw this idea out to the group for discussion.
Earl Crane
MISM, Information Security, Carnegie Mellon University
Phd. Candidate, Applied Management and Decision Sciences
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