Four new evaluations of open source LDAP servers are available:

• FedoraDS 1.1
• ApacheDS 1.5.4
• OpenDS 1.1
• Openldap 2.4.11

You can also consult them online or download .qsos files from here. Or use o3s to visualize and export to OpenDocument format.

Thanks to David Pillant for these contributions !

The Qualoss project released a comparison of QSOS and OpenBRR assessment methodologies.

“The objective of this work is, through a detailed and rigorous assessment methodology comparison, to allow companies to have a better understanding of these two assessment methodologies content and limitation.  This work compares both methodologies on several aspects, among others, their overall approaches, their scoring procedures and their evaluation criteria.” 

Link

A detailed introduction of the QSOS method is included in the May issue of OSBR (Open Source Business Resource) about Enterprise Readiness. OSBR is a free monthly canadian publication dedicated to Open Source.

• View the article online
• OSBR’s table of contents
• Download the May issue of OSBR (PDF format)

Three new evaluations of open source ESB are available:

• JBossESB 4.2
• Apache ServiceMix 3.1.1
• Mule 1.4.1

You can also consult them via o3s.

Thanks to M.A.M’RAD for these contributions !

The process of submission and validation of evaluation is under design. An explanation of what we’re thinking about is available in the wiki. Feel free to participate and give us advice!

QSOS XUL Editor 0.7 is available. It includes:

• a new Chat tab allowing you to connect via XMPP to a QSOS chatroom
• a better synchronization between Citeria and Graph tabs
• and also several bugfixes

If you already use this tool as a Mozilla extention, just update it from your browser extention manager. If you want to install it as a new extention of your (Mozilla) browser, follow this link: http://www.qsos.org/tools/xuleditor-firefox-0.7.xpi

If you prefer to use the editor as a standalone application, download this file, unzip it and follow README instructions.

Using QSOS tools

Here is QSOS XUL Editor, that lets you fill your criteria in three steps:

• First step: fill the header of your evaluation

• Second step: fill all the critaria, with notes et comments

• Third step: visualize the radar graphs

And here is O3S, that lets you compare software in five steps:

• First step: select a software family

• Second step: set your weightings

• Third step: select software

• Fourth step: compare in a table

• Fifth step: compare in a radar graph

…and draw your own conclusions, wether these software are adapted to your context.

QSOS is the equivalent of 5 person years of work! It’s ohloh who says that…

QSOS is now registered on Ohloh: you can access statistics on QSOS tools’ code (languages, contributors, licenses, …)

There are no statistics on QSOS templates and evaluations, but hush… this is on our roadmap

The slides of Raphaël Semeteys’ presentation at the LSM 2007 have been published on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/Raph/prsentation-qsos-aux-rmll-2007/

You can also download the PDF version.