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Lots of feedback from the EOS user community

Only few days old, we have already received a lot of feedback from the EOS user community. We are happy that people are pleased with the site and find it quite usable. Aside of generic comments and feedbacks we also receive many proposals for projects and technologies to be added. We plan to implement a “propose project” functionality for this but for the time being eos@optaros.com is the easiest way to communicate missing projects. We have a fairly rigid process to check candidates and we have right now quite a long list of candidates to be added. Let me reiterate what it takes in our eyes to be included in the catalogue:

  • The technology is “open source”
  • The technology can be considered enterprise ready (see criteria), we don’t list products that do not achieve at least one star
  • The technology fits into one of the categories we cover in EOS
  • The technology clearly is well represented within enterprises across the world

We are aware that there are probably quite a number of projects out there that fit these threshold criterias and are not listed (yet). But, well, that’s the reason we brought it online. We want the input and feedback of the enterprise users out there on the web. Thank you for contributing!

This entry was posted by Bruno von Rotz on Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 10:31 am and is filed under Making of EOS, User feedback. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Lots of feedback from the EOS user community”

  1. Tristan Rhodes Says:
    July 14th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    I really appreciate what you are doing with the EOS Directory, and I look forward to future progress.

    I am glad that you are adding the capability for people to suggest additions to the directory. I don’t understand what criteria you used to create the initial database. There is a strange mix of great enterprise apps and some small, obscure projects without much enterprise potential. In the meantime, dozens of popular open source apps are missing from this directory. I hope that you will enter suggestions quickly, without requiring an evaluation and rating by Optaros. You can leave your rating as blank until you have reviewed the software, but the community will get to work quickly on rating these projects.

    Lastly, I am glad that you are focusing on “open source” as a requirement. I am pleased to see that you have removed the VMware ESX entry, which is great software, but not even a hint related to open source. I suggest that you replace it with VirtualBox, an excellent open source virtualization tool.

    Keep up the good work!

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