Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Is open source bad for your career?

    Is open source bad for your career?

    ComputerWorld Canada recently published an article about the closing keynote on open source that I had given at the Free Software & Open Source Symposium in Toronto last year. The basic tenet of the article is that I had claimed that software developers will fall on hard times due to open source. This is obviously…

  • How to benefit from open source

    How to benefit from open source

    Title: How to Benefit from Open Source Presenter: Dirk Riehle Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC Abstract: Open source is changing the game of how software is built and how money is made. This talk analyzes the economics of open source software from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and…