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


Assenssment: Possible label: None
Stats: Durability: 10 / 33, Industrial: 4 / 15, Strategy: 0 / 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 Often implemented for critical applications
Contributing community No community or without real activity (forum, mailing lists…)
Books Less than 3 books about the software are available
Developers identification and turnover Less than 3 developers, not clearly identified
Activity on bugs Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, long reaction/resolution time
Activity on releases Activity on production and development releases. Frequent minor releases (bug fixes)
Independence of developments Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single company

Industrial solutions
Training No offer of training identified
Support Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor without strong commitment quality of services
Consulting Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one language or is provided by a single contractor
Documentation Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ?)
Tools No bug or feature request management tool

Strategy
Roadmap No published roadmap
Sponsorship Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid
Strategic independence No detectable strategy or strong dependency on one unique actor (person, company, sponsor...)