Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Commercial, professional, and community open source: Resolving the naming confusion

    Commercial, professional, and community open source: Resolving the naming confusion

    As a researcher, imprecise naming bothers me. The general confusion around the terms commercial open source, professional open source, and community open source warrants closer analysis. First my proposal, then some litmus tests, followed by a bit of history. Commercial open source is software provided as open source where a single legal entity owns the…

  • Addendum to Total Growth of Open Source Paper

    Addendum to Total Growth of Open Source Paper

    Based on multiple requests, for the Total Growth of Open Source paper, we are providing a table of doubling times for the exponential models as well as semi-log scale graphs of the growth curves. Table 1: Doubling times for the growth curves

  • The total growth of open source [OSS 2008]

    The total growth of open source [OSS 2008]

    Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle Abstract: Software development is undergoing a major change away from a fully closed software process towards a process that incorporates open source software in products and services. Just how significant is that change? To answer this question we need to look at the overall growth of open source as well…

  • Global open source trends and public initiatives

    Global open source trends and public initiatives

    I’ll be moderating the experts panel on “Global Open Source Trends and Public Initiatives” at the half-day Global Open Source Conference on March 24th, 2008, in San Francisco. Panel participants are Mark Radcliffe of DLA Piper, Sander Ruiter from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Tony Wasserman of CMU West, and Arnaud Le Hors of…

  • Continuous integration in open-source software development [OSS 2008]

    Continuous integration in open-source software development [OSS 2008]

    Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle Abstract: Commercial software firms are increasingly using and contributing to open source software. Thus, they need to understand and work with open source software development processes. This paper investigates whether the practice of continuous integration of agile software development methods has had an impact on open source software projects. Using…

  • SDN: Selling services for stock open source components…

    SDN: Selling services for stock open source components…

    […] There is much less demand for open source services than one might have expected. But it is not only the demand-side. The supply of such services is also problematic. Why? Because it is a hard business to be in. Why that? Because there are no juicy profit margins. Now, that needs some explanation. Read…