The Open Source Software Ecosystem

Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health

Background: The livelihood of an open source ecosystem is important to different ecosystem participants: software developers, end-users, investors, and participants want to know whether their ecosystem is healthy and performing well. Currently, there exists no working operationalization available that can be used to determine the health of open source ecosystems. Health is typically looked at f...

Impact of Software Ecosystems on the Implementation of Open Source-Based Electronic Health Record Software

In this manuscript, we examine the ways in which the members of the ecosystem surrounding an open source software (OSS) based EHR system impact the quality and success of the resultant implementation. Following a brief theoretical review, we provide narratives of successful OSS-based EHRs at three US hospitals, followed by a brief discussion of the contributions and effects of the open source e...

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

Protocol for a SLR on software ecosystems Technical report

Open Source Software (OSS) and Ecosystems (SECO) are two emergent research areas in software engineering. We are interested on the published works that join these two topics, to do it we used a well-known technique called Systematic Literature Review (SLR).

A Novel Open Source Software Ecosystem: From a Graphic Point of View and Its Application

With the rapid development of open source software, various elements such as OSS, developers, users and online posts, across different communities and their interactions constitute a novel software ecosystem. Most of the current researches about software ecosystems care the connections between software, and few of them consider the relationship across communities from an overall perspective, an...