Category: 1. Software Industry
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The Imperfection of Search Algorithms
This is a professional blog, so I usually leave humorous excursions into my life to my personal blog. Well, unless there is good reason for an exception. Today was such a day. That’s because today to much fanfare a new search service, improbably named CUIL was launched. A friend alerted me to the observation that…
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The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives [Computer Magazine]
Author: Dirk Riehle Abstract: Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits. Reference: IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4…
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Open Source in the Share of Wallet Wars
On their blogs, Matt Asay and Savio Rodrigues are discussing whether IBM is using open source to diminish competitor margins. I think it is obvious that IBM does this, most notably with its Linux engagement, which is squarely directed against Microsoft (Windows). It is what I call a war over the share of customer’s wallet,…
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Open Source Businesses and Developer Careers: Who Benefits from Open Source? How and Why?
Title: Open Source Businesses and Developer Careers: Who Benefits from Open Source? How and Why? Presenter: Dirk Riehle Abstract: Open source is changing how software is built and how money is made. This talk discusses the economics of open source software from the start-up firm, the system integrator, and the software developer perspective. The talk…
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Successful Open Source, with Little or No Agile
I’ll be participating in the panel “Successful Open Source, with little or no Agile” at Agile 2008 in Toronto, Canada, on August 7th, 2008. Successful Open Source, with Little or No Agile Agile adoption in the Open Source community ranges from some to none for most successful teams. Can these communities learn anything from each…
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Conflict of Interest in Open Source and PostgreSQL Replication
Community open source is open source that is not owned by any particular company. Rather, ownership is shared among a large number of diverse stakeholders. Given the right (read: permissive) license, commercial companies can provide extensions to the community project, earning a living. Since such extensions are a unique selling point of these companies, one…