Intrinsic durability
10 / 33
Industrial solutions
6 / 15
Strategy
3 / 9
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Sheet: Possible label: Silver
Stats: Mandatory 9 / 9,  Recommended 0 / 17,  Free 4 / 48


Assenssment: Possible label: Silver
Stats: Durability: 10 / 33, Industrial: 6 / 15, Strategy: 3 / 9

Intrinsic durability
Age More than 3 years
Stability Stabilized production release existing but old. Difficulties to stabilize development releases
History, known problems No known major problem or crisis
Popularity (at its scale) Detectable use on Internet (sourceforge, freshmeat, google…)
References
Contributing community No community or without real activity (forum, mailing lists…)
Books No book about the software
Developers identification and turnover 4 to 7 developers, or more unidentified developers with important turnover
Activity on bugs Strong reactivity based on roles and tasks management
Activity on releases Important activity with frequent minor releases (bugs fixes) and planned major releases relating to the roadmap forecast
Independence of developments Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single company

Industrial solutions
Training Rich offers provided by several contractors, in several languages and split into modules of gradual levels
Support Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor without strong commitment quality of services
Consulting No offer of consulting service
Documentation Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ?)
Tools Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting forge) but poorly used

Strategy
Roadmap Existing roadmap without planning
Sponsorship Software has an unique sponsor who might determine its strategy
Strategic independence Strategic vision shared with several other projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners