An exploratory study for effective COTS and OSS product marketing

Dagdeviren, Huseyin; Juric, Radmila; Kassana, T.A.

doi:10.1109/iti.2005.1491205

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“…Other ways of participating in the OSS community, such as providing feedback and reporting bugs (Holck et al 2005, Merilinna andMatinlassi 2006) or proposing new features and trial implementations of these features (Tuma 2005, Merilinna andMatinlassi 2006), may be more cost-effective for such respondents. Our results support the observations that most projects did not have a managed, comprehensive component repository (Dagdeviren et al 2005). The results show that learning, developing gluecode, adaptation, and maintenance are the highest costs (with median value 3 and upward skewness), while consulting costs and license fees are the lowest (with median value 2).…”

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“…The following motivations for using OSS components were taken from the literature Dagdeviren et al (2005) and Li et al (2005a) 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 of OSS community and share values of the OSS movement; (h) gain access to products which are not available on the brand-name market. The survey questions were based on the above motivations.…”

Section: Results Of Rq1mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…External information channels, such as getting advice from persons in other companies, were rarely used. Dagdeviren et al (2005), as follows: (a) requirements compliance; (b) architectural compliance; (c) quality of components (security, reliability, usability etc. ); (d) functionality; (e) OSS licensing terms; (f) licensing price; (g) reputation of components or supplier; (h) quality of documentation; (i) expected support from the OSS community (updates, bug fixing, clarification etc.…”

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“…However, some researchers regard having such an internal comprehensive repository of OSS components as unrealistic (Dagdeviren et al 2005).…”

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An empirical study on software development with open source components in the chinese software industry

Chen

et al. 2008

Softw Process Imprv Pract

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Chinese software companies are increasingly using open source software (OSS) components in software development. Development with OSS components faces challenges with respect to component selection, component integration, licensing compliance, and system maintenance. Although these issues have been investigated in the industry in other countries, few similar studies have been performed in China. It is therefore difficult for Chinese software companies to be aware of their special issues and to make the necessary improvements. This article describes a questionnaire-based survey of software development with OSS components in Chinese software companies. Data from 47 completed development projects in 43 companies were collected. The results show that the main motivation behind using OSS components was their modifiability and low license cost. Using a web search engine was the most common method of locating OSS components. Local acquaintance and compliance requirements were the major decisive factors in choosing a suitable component. To avoid legal exposure, the common strategy was to use components without licensing constraints. The major cost of OSS-based projects was the cost to learn and understand OSS components. Almost 84% of the components needed bug fixing or other changes to the code. However, close participation with the OSS community was rare.

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confidence: 87%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…However, some researchers regard having such an internal comprehensive repository of OSS components as unrealistic (Dagdeviren et al 2005).…”

Section: Maintenance Of the Oss-based Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An empirical study on software development with open source components in the chinese software industry

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“…To answer this question, we formulated possible criteria to be considered when evaluating OSS components from [3,12] as following: − Requirements compliance − Architecture compliance − Quality of components (security, reliability, usability etc.) − Functionality − OSS licensing term − Price − Reputation of components or supplier − Quality of documentation − Expected support from the OSS community (updating, bug fixing etc.)…”

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A Survey of Software Development with Open Source Components in Chinese Software Industry

Chen

et al.

Software Process Dynamics and Agility

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Abstract. Chinese software companies are increasingly using Open Source Software (OSS) components in system development. Integrating such components into new software systems leads to challenges related to component selection, component integration and testing, licensing compliance, and system maintenance. Although these issues have been investigated industrially in other countries, few state-of-the-practice studies have so far been performed in China and with a representative subset of software companies. It is therefore difficult for Chinese software companies to be aware of special issues, or to plan improvement of OSS-related processes. This paper describes a questionnaire-based survey in Chinese software companies of software development with existing OSS components. Data from 47 finished development projects in 43 companies have been collected. The results show that use of web search engines was the most common method to locate OSS components. Local expertise combined with requirements compliance was the most decisive factors when choosing an identified component. To avoid legal exposure, the common strategy was to use components without licensing constraints. About 84% of the components needed bug fixing or other code changes, rarely relies on support from the OSS community. However, close participation with the OSS community was rare, although most developers meant that this was important.

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