text: where i can find the list of software commercial off the shelf products? know in the competion world companies what to bring their product to market at the earliest. so the development groups have adopted to use commercially off the shelf (cots) components/products in their product with/without custumizing the cots. i need to know the where i find the companies who are building cots components and where i find all the cots product availiable in market. hmmmm.  you do not understand the term.  cots is any software available for sale as a product - microsoft office and windows are both cots.  so is open office, oracle, linux, firefox....  a comprehensive list of cots software is a list of all available software made and sold today...