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The goal of the eCots1 project is to setup an open portal for collecting, sharing and improving accurate information on software COTS products and producers. The core information will be freely available on the Internet [1], with secure replication mechanisms available under subscription, allowing enterprises to synchronize their private intranet information with the portal data. The eCots project is based on the in-depth formalization and standardization of the COTS related data, as well as innovative business and legal approaches related to this kind of open information sharing and content collaborative production, inspired by the open source initiative.
A French initiative supported by the RNTL (National Network of Software Technologies).
COTS are software products, components or libraries that can be identified by a name, one or several producers and a version number. COTS can be used locally or through a network: hence COTS include Web services. COTS can have any type of license policy, free or proprietary.
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Mielnik, JC., Lang, B., Laurière, S., Schlosser, JG., Bouthors, V. (2003). eCots Platform: An Inter-industrial Initiative for COTS-Related Information Sharing. In: Erdogmus, H., Weng, T. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36465-X_15
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