When commercial off the shelf (English for commercial products of the shelf) or COTS become short series-manufactured products from electronics or software sector designation, which is completely homogeneously developed sold in large number of items. This can be practiced for example with Office products or commodity managements. The opposite of COTS are developed industry solutions, which are developed for an individual customer like an authority or a company; for example customized integrated circuits (Application Specific Integrated Circuits - ASICs).

Because ex factory no adjustments are made to the needs of the individual customer, the user expects large cost savings, there here development costs not by the client alone, but by the market to be carried. Particularly within the authority range, as well as with military applications straight finds transferred more to a large extent to COTS instead of; with the military completely particularly of particularly developed, durable devices to solutions with standard PC hardware.

A special form of the COTS, which is available from quantity production, but on the needs of the final customer to be still adapted can or must, is MOTS.

In the last years it became also with the structure from Computerclustern to a diskutablen alternative, instead of bringing to particularly built hardware large numbers of items more cheaply, homogeneous off The Shelf computer to the employment. As operating system frequently Linux is used, sees in addition also Beowulf (cluster).

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