Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

Hauge, Øyvind; Sørensen, Carl-Fredrik; Conradi, Reidar

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_17

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“…This confirms the observations from [21][22][23][24] that emphasize that most organizations seem to have rather limited contributions to the OSS communities. Furthermore, although our results show that the most frequent way to contribute was by providing bug reports without code, the number of integrators that also submitted the code for fixing the bug was also high.…”

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OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Ayala

Cruzes

Nguyen

et al. 2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The reuse and integration of Open Source Software (OSS) components provided by OSS communities is becoming an economical and strategic need for today's organizations. The integration of OSS components provides many benefits, but also risks and challenges. One of the most important risks is the lack of effective and timely OSS community support for dealing with possible integration problems. For gaining an understanding of the common problems that organizations face when integrating OSS components, and the role played by OSS communities, we performed an exploratory study on 25 OSS integration projects from different European organizations. The results show that the main way of reducing integration problems was the use of OSS components from well-established communities; therefore very few integration problems were identified. In most of the cases these problems were successfully solved with the support from the OSS community and/or colleagues. In addition, contrary to the common belief that understanding code from someone else is a hard and undesirable task, some integrators consider OSS code even more understandable than their own code.

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Section: Discussion Of Main Findingssupporting

confidence: 89%

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

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Nguyen

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“…The studied sites were identified from the answers of the respondents of the study described in Section 4.2, previous studies e.g. [10,13,15], research team's experience, and web investigation. Of course, we do not claim that we have reviewed all existing portals or search tools of the marketplace, indeed by the nature of the marketplace it is not realistic to think that this can be done.…”

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“…With a basis in earlier studies e.g. [10,13,15], we developed and tested an interview guide. It focuses on the experience of industrial Reusers with a finished project in which one or more OSS components were used.…”

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Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry

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Conradi

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Abstract. The reuse of Open Source Software components available on the Internet is playing a major role in the development of Component Based Software Systems. Nevertheless, the special nature of the OSS marketplace has taken the "classical" concept of software reuse based on centralized repositories to a completely different arena based on massive reuse over Internet. In this paper we provide an overview of the actual state of the OSS marketplace, and report preliminary findings about how companies interact with this marketplace to reuse OSS components. Such data was gathered from interviews in software companies in Spain and Norway. Based on these results we identify some challenges aimed to improve the industrial reuse of OSS components.

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“…Open Source Software (OSS) development has become a serious source of revenue for the software industry [10,13]. Large companies like Apple, IBM, Sun and others have released significant amounts of their software as OSS.…”

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Providing Commercial Open Source Software: Lessons Learned

Hauge

Ziemer

2009

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Abstract. Even though companies like Sun, IBM, MySQL and others have released several commercial Open Source Software (OSS) products, little evidence exist of how to successfully launch such products and establish a living community around them. This paper presents a case study from a small software company succeeding at establishing a business model and a vivid community around their own OSS products. Based on this case study, the paper presents lessons learned which could help other OSS providers.

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Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

Cited by 34 publications

References 13 publications

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

OSS Integration Issues and Community Support: An Integrator Perspective

Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry

Providing Commercial Open Source Software: Lessons Learned

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