[Update 23 July, 2007: Optaros has relaunched the catalog as an online resource.]
Optaros has published its first Open Source Catalogue. It includes 262 projects and was developed over the past year as the developer/consultants installed and used the components for clients and their own work internally. They have made best efforts to rate them according to functionality (in an enterprise context), maturity, available support, community vibrancy, and "enterprise readiness".
This of course sparked a certain amount of immediate controversy as some felt their project got short shrift, but as is stated in the catagolue:
While Optaros took great care in consolidating this catalogue and applied multiple cycles of feedback and quality assurance, it is still possible that some information is presented in an incomplete or even inaccurate way. Also different people might have different opinions or different experiences.
Optaros is open and ready to accept feedback and additional input for improvements. For this an email address is provided: [email protected]. Please use this email for sending us your feedback and ideas.
It's a great first effort to try to provide a starting point for enterprise IT people to learn about free and open source software, with lots of educational material in the front. It will be interesting to track this document over time. It (as all Optaros white papers and reports) is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.
Disclaimer: I worked for Optaros from Feb 2005 through Sept 2006 as vice-president, open source development strategy.
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