Breaking down Non-Technical Barriers to COTS Adoption

The use of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) components introduces new technical problems, mainly related to COTS integration within the system architecture, that are being solved by new standardised technologies. However, the most important barriers that companies, specially SMEs, face when adopting COTS are related to non-technical aspects such as management, commercial and legal issues. ESI is planning to launch an initiative to create a COTS Users Working Group to establish collaborative approaches to break down non-technical barriers.