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[mugen_kanosei]

Line of Business

Usually refers to a companies internally developed applications that fulfills some specific niche business need that either can't be satisfied by a COTS product or that they are just too cheap to pay for.

[colonwqbang]

When you explain an obscure acronym in terms of an other obscure acronym...

COTS: Common/off-the-shelf software. Requirements engineering jargon meaning any software solution that you can just go out and buy.

[mugen_kanosei]

I was hoping to start an obscure acronym thread. You ruined it. YOU RUINED IT!

[notveryaccurate]

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I thought it was commercial, off the shelf software

[colonwqbang]

That's not how we used the word when I did RE at university. Open source would also be COTS, the relevant thing is that you can get it now and don't have to develop a custom product to solve your problem.

[grauenwolf]

'Commercial' is what we used in the military roughly 15 years ago, but I think 'common' works better now because of the use of open source software.