As with most Open Source Software (OSS) efforts, the impetus for creating the OSDK was in response to personal needs that weren't being met (don't go there). If the needs you have identified with an OSS project are common to a large enough or motivated enough group of people, the project will be successful. Obvious examples are Linux, Apache (Web server, Xerces, etc..).

The following are the set of needs that we are trying to address with the OSDK. We feel these issues exist for the typical developer in larger, corporate environments and therefore much of the OSDK is biased from that perspective.

• Difficult to filter through all the OSS and find what you need.
• No roadmap to understand where each OSS project fits within the development process.
• No confidence that you have found all the OSS that addresses your needs.
• No means to judge the quality of the OSS.