Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

Curating, preserving, and showing software at the Computer History Museum

Last Saturday I visited the Computer History Museum’s new exhibition “R|Evolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing”. The exhibition is fantastic, and they’ve come a long way from the early days of their “visible storage” exhibition. If you live in or visit the Silicon Valley, I highly recommend you pay it a visit. That said,…

2011-02-11
Honoring Peter Naur on the community wall at the Computer History Museum

Last Saturday I visited the “R|Evolution” exhibition at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum (more on that later). One reason why I went there was to see the “community wall” of plaques sponsored by small-time donors. I had sponsored one and my saying on it was: In honor of Peter Naur: To program is to learn.…

2011-02-09
Micro-Blogging Adoption in the Enterprise: An Empirical Analysis [WI 2011]

Abstract: Given the increasing interest in using social software for company-internal communication and collaboration, this paper examines drivers and inhibitors of micro-blogging adoption at the workplace. While nearly one in two companies is currently planning to introduce social software, there is no empirically validated research on employees’ adoption. In this paper, we build on previous…

2010-12-15
The single-vendor commercial open source business model [Book Chapter]

Update 2012-01-28: Springer changed the citation. The reference below reflects this. Springer just republished our 2009 article on how vendor-owned open source works, again. Here is the abstract: Abstract: Single-vendor commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single ﬁrm that derives a direct and signiﬁcant revenue stream…

2010-12-06
Control points and steering mechanisms in open-source software projects

Following up on my Lisog talk earlier this month, I was asked to write up the talk’s content. So here we go, my analysis of what commercial open source firms do to manage or steer open source projects they depend on. Abstract: Most commercial software today depends on open source software. The commercial software might…

2010-11-24
Upcoming Talk: Steering and Control Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects (in German)

Next week, on Nov 11, 2011, I’ll give the keynote talk (in German) at the annual Lisog gathering. Lisog is a non-profit organization working to create a sustainable co-existence of open and closed source software. Title: Steering and Control Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects Abstract: Open source has become commercial. With commercial interests, it…

2010-11-05