SOS Open Source

10 June 2010

SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.

The general lack of information about open source alternatives requires the use of ad-hoc methodologies and tools to fastly identify projects matching set quality goals, focusing functional requirements‘ tests only on the most promising candidates.

SOS Open Source using 24 different metrics returns sets of scores grouping together information about code quality and stability, level of adoption in terms of popularity, case-histories references and published books, community size and management style, available training/documentation and commercial support, QA, code evolvability, licensing and more.

SOS Open Source gathers data from directories, forges and meta-forges and creates comprehensive information, using content-specific heuristics to decide for every indicator which is the most trustworthy source of information.

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- "Software De Código Aberto: Melhores Diretórios E Listas Para Encontrar E Avaliar Programas Open Source" MasterNewMedia.br, May 2011
- "Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them" MasterNewMedia, March 2011
- "The role of Open Source and Free software in today’s world, excellences, issues and frontiers to cross: an expert talk with Roberto Galoppini" Meedabyte, February 2011
- "IT: Updated law presses public administrations to share software" OSOR News, February 2011
- "SOS Open Source" TodoBI, January 2011
- "The choice engine is an Italian job" ZDNet, October 2010
- "Open Source Project Filtering" Content Here, July 2010
- "Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal" OSTATIC, May 2010
- "Picking the right open source projects" Infoworld, April 2010
- "This Roman knows how to spot the best open source" ZDNet, April 2010
- "Funambol Scores High In Galoppini SOS Open Source Software Evaluation" Funambol Press Release, April 2010
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About the author

Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows., whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.
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