Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
-
Research Positions for CCC’s 2010 Future of Open Source Research Workshop
I will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium’s workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine next month. The organizers asked participants to provide a short opinion on three research areas they feel warrant further research. I chose the following three general topics: Quantitative Analyses of Actual Programmer Behavior Improved Open…
-
Call for Open Source Dated Dec 12, 1968
Ike Nassi, an Executive Vice President and my former manager at SAP, writes in an email: By accident, while reviewing a very old CACM paper “Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations” by Dennis and Van Horn from March 1966 (!) reprinted in the CACM 25th Anniversary issue (Volume 26, Issue 1 (Jan. 1983) Special 25th Anniversary…
-
2010 Open Source Research Workshops Galore!
It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks: 10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) 08.05.2010: 2010…
-
Open Source Vendor Lock-in
Yesterday, SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka called for a more open approach to the Java standardization process (JCP), asking SUN to stop ruling it with a heavy hand. Not surprisingly, he got some pushback using the argument that SAP isn’t one to talk about being more open, given its slow involvement with open source. I don’t…
-
Why Open Source is Hard for Closed Source Vendors (Alpha Release)
It is difficult for many closed source software vendors to embrace open source. Why is this so? After all, over the last years we have come to understand the many business benefits of employing open source as part of a software vendor’s strategy toolbox. In this presentation, I make a first attempt at answering this…
-
The Commenting Practice of Open Source (Completed, for Now) [Onward! 2009]
For now, the final paper in this sequence of short publications of how open source software projects document their code. The paper is basically a more comprehensive summary of prior articles, with a bit more of data. Here the abstract and reference: Abstract: The development processes of open source software are different from traditional closed…