COTS – Commercial Off-The-Shelf
(Commercial Off-The-Shelf) – a COTS product is one that is used “as-is”. COTS products are designed to be easily installed and to interoperate with existing system components.
The benefits of using COTS components are:
- Reduce cost
- Reduce development time.
- Allow faster insertion of new technology.
- Lower life-cycle costs by taking advantage of the more readily available and up-to-date commercial industrial base