COTS stands for Commercial off-the-shelf, pre-made products that require little to no bespoke development on top of the product to meet a business function
Questions tagged [cots]
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How to Deal With Fear of Custom Dev
I'm dealing with an issue with my current employer that has seriously made me consider seeking employment elsewhere. They are under the impression that 100% of custom development should be eliminated and replaced with COTS products, such as…
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COTS vs. Custom / Build vs. Buy: Decision Tree and Best Practices
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I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .NET systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development…
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How can I automate antivirus/WSUS patch testing of my Windows driver and binary?
My (rather small) company develops a popular Windows application, but one thing we've always struggled with is testing - it frequently is only tested by the developers on a system similar to the one they developed it on, and when an update is pushed…
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Generic datastructures in C
I'm looking into creating a generic BST. Nothing fancy no COTS, but I'm trying to decide the best way to keep track of the type of the void*. Here's the interface for the nodes:
typedef struct
{
void *data;
struct TreeNode *left;
struct…
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What is difference between COTS and Web Services or Services in general?
What is difference between COTS and Web Services or Services in general?I want to know from Architectural point of view as im working on Service oriented architecture so can we define a fine line between services and COTS?Are they integrated in an…
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Prompting of credentials on Edge browser despite already logged in on client PCs
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We were accessing our RSA Archer application on IE 11 via SSO, and all has been well. But we are required to move on to Edge browser, and that's where we started having the Windows Security credential prompt coming out, whenever we…
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Citrix/COTS application monitor - Splunk
Our COTS applications are configured on Citrix, is it possible to monitor COTS apps via Splunk?
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Does anyone know of a good video library script?
Our company now has over 40 tutorial videos and I'm looking for a video gallery app.
Something that would be similar…
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Merge two Image.class items into 1 Image.class
I have been researching this for a while on this site and have not came up with exactly what I am looking for. I am working with software in which I do not have the source for must pass that code an Image.class image. I have 2 images that I need…
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E-Commencement solution for Sitecore and Microsoft CRM
I've started at an organisation that is moving towards Sitecore CMS and Microsoft CRM for various reasons. They have an extremely old "shop" website which they are looking at replacing this with a COTS product.
Does anyone have experience with an…
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Where to find and learn about COTS solutions to programming problems?
I'm a senior java programmer and I'm used to building solutions from scratch. More often, though, I'm hearing people -- managers, clients, and other programmers -- suggesting we look for a COTS (Commerical Off The Shelf) solution.
Thing is, I know…
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COTS Workshop Registration System
Does anyone have any experience with any COTS systems for managing workshops and the associated registrations, courses, communications, etc.?
We have a home-built Perl system that is about 8 years old and is currently embedded as an iframe in a…
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