Re: directories of open source alternatives to commercial software

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Tom Metro wrote: 
> Open Source Alternative - Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial 
> software 
> http://www.osalt.com/
> 
> The Linux Alternative Project 
> http://www.linuxalt.com/

Here's another one: 

http://www.iterating.com/

This one takes the software directory concept to another level. Here's 
an article on it: 

http://www.sdtimes.com/article/LatestNews-20070815-15.html

   ITerating, a startup that hosts a wiki-based software guide, thinks 
   it has a better solution born out of so-called "Semantic Web" 
   technologies. On Aug. 27, ITerating launched a free Semantic Web 
   service that shares data about software with other Web sites, using 
   standardized vocabularies. 
   ... 
   The ITerating Web service exchanges information about software using 
   machine-read RDF metadata feeds. The service is built upon four 
   Semantic Web ontologies: DOAP (Description of a Project), FOAF 
   (Friend of a Friend), Open BRR (Business Readiness Rating) and 
   Review, an ontology created by Semantic Web developer and technical 
   author Danny Ayers to express software reviews in a vocabulary 
   machines can parse. 

   ITerating.com ... lists descriptions and reviews for more than 
   18,000 commercial, open source and hosted applications. Its software 
   repository was populated en masse with Open BRR data. Open BRR is a 
   model proposed as a standard to rate open source software. It is 
   being sponsored by the Center for Open Source Investigation at 
   Carnegie Mellon West, Intel, O'Reilly CodeZoo and SpikeSource. 

   Another advantage of Open BRR is that it enables software to be 
   compared and sorted by a feature matrix. 


The idea of being able to automate the upkeep of information in a 
feature matrix sounds promising. Looks like a pretty slick site. 

  -Tom 

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Tom Metro 
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA 
"Enterprise solutions through open source." 
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