Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Building a Business on Open Source Software

For many years, free and open source software was exclusively associated with the research community, in contrast to the closed source products developed by commercial software vendors. Over the past decade, there has been a vast increase in the availability of open source software, growing from such projects as Linux and Apache. Open source software is being widely adopted in industry, which h...

Product - and Service Related Business Models for Open Source Software

The buzzword “open source software” is gaining in importance and popularity in public, and more and more people are interested in this phenomenon. Yet up until now most of the literature concerning open source has mainly dealt with the technical aspects of the software. The non-technical side, such as discussing the economic aspects in an overall concept, have been neglected thus far. This pape...

A Framework Analysis of Business Models for Open Source Software

The aim of this research is to identify the key elements in the success of business models for companies producing open source software. We have defined a new framework that can be used to evaluate existing and new business models in this area. Based on our analysis, we have identified two classes of business models for open source which in our opinion have the potential for success: Commodity ...

Software Quality in Open Source Software Ecosystems

growing research literature, OSS has garnered much support in the software community. Indeed, from the early days of GNU software, to X Window System, to Linux and its utilities, and more recently the Apache Software Project, OSS has changed the way software is developed and used. As the deployment of OSS increases, the issue of its quality with respect to its stakeholders arises. We contend th...