Another recent initiative by Intel Corporation, the Centre for Open Source Investigation at Carnegie Mellon University and SpikeSource proposes an open
standard to facilitate assessment and adoption of F/OSS artefacts, called the Business Readiness Rating (BRR) [10]. This initiative intends to give companies a trusted, unbiased source for determining whether the open source software they are considering is mature enough to adopt, and help adopters assess which F/OSS software would be most suitable for their needs. The rating weighs the important factors for successful implementation of F/OSS software, and includes: functionality, quality, performance, support, community size, and security (among other factors). Initial analysis suggests that this effort provides more detailed evaluation data and scoring than the previously mentioned models.