Today is the day! We launch our BETA version of EOS. With 285 projects of which more than 80% have been updated during the last weeks of reviews, discussion, benchmarking and more discussions. It’s not a surprise to see that 3/4 of the projects have actually progressed and their rating has improved. However there’s also another quarter of projects that we are less convinced about compared to our last big review cycle at the end of 2006. And then there are more than 30 projects that were added to our directory. These are projects that people made us aware off after the publication of our PDF Open Source Catalogue and others that we used ourselves in projects during the last months. Included in the 285 projects are a significant number that we think are a benchmark not only for other open source products but also for the commercial software world. This includes projects such as the Apache web server, FreeRadius, Firefox, Gnu gcc, Hibernate, ISC Bind, JBoss AS, PHP, Python, RedHat Linux, Spring, SuSE Linux, Tomcat or vim. We are sure not everybody will agree with our “Optaros Enterprise Readiness Rating”, but that’s the reason why we think taking EOS online is such an important step. People can both add their own “Enterprise Readiness Rating” as a “User Rating” as well as adding their comments into the forum. This will help us to improve the quality and objectivity of our ratings and at the end make the Directory even better for the user.

Over the coming weeks and months we will use this blog to announce news, be it rating changes, entry candidates and new additions. But we also will talk about support models, commercial open source and open source licenses.

We hope our users will find EOS a valuable source of information and that our hopes in making collective intelligence add value to this directory will substantiate.

But not only the directory entries will change over time, we also want to continuously improve the EOS application and add more features to it to make it even more useful. “Perpetual Beta” we call it.

Stay tuned, there’s more to come.

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When we started with our Open Source Catalgoue in 2006 we had no idea on how popular this ever could become. We are very excited that we have been able to create and publish a directory that is a reference for many people now around the world. Now we want to take it to the next level and bring it online. This will add tremendous value as only by gathering opinions and experiences from users and specialists around the world we will be able to increase the relevance and accuracy of the information. However this is also a challenge and we will need to feedback of our readers to tailor the site (EOS) so that it works best.

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