Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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The commercial open source business model [AMCIS 2009]
Abstract: 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 from the software. Commercial open source at first glance represents an economic paradox: How can a firm earn money if it is making its product available for free as…
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Modeling micro-blogging adoption in the enterprise [AMCIS 2009]
Abstract: Despite a broad range of collaboration tools already available, enterprises continue to look for ways to improve internal and external communication. Micro-blogging is such a new communication channel with some considerable potential to improve intra-firm transparency and knowledge sharing. However, the adoption of such social software presents certain challenges to enterprises. Based on the…
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Micro-blogging in the enterprise: Focus groups evaluation results
A couple of weeks ago, Oliver Günther and I reported about the results of the Micro-Blogging in the Enterprise Focus Groups we had undertaken in December 2008. The report was an internal talk at SAP Labs LLC in Palo Alto and drew a record audience. I’m glad to report that we can publish the slides…
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Bringing open source best practices into corporations using a software forge
You may have noticed our work on improving corporate software development at SAP using an in-house software forge. The main benefit is in transferring open source best practices to our software development processes. At an upcoming industry conference presentation I’ll be talking about some of the lessons we learned. Here is the abstract of the…
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Call for papers: Onward! 2009
For your information, the call for papers for Onward! 2009. I’m on the program committee (and was last year’s chair). ONWARD! 2009 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software. Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009 http://www.onward-conference.org Sponsored by ACM…
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Open collaboration within corporations using software forges [Software Magazine]
Abstract: Over the past 10 years, open source software has become an important cornerstone of the software industry. Commercial users have adopted it in standalone applications, and software vendors are embedding it in products. Surprisingly then, from a commercial perspective, open source software is developed differently from how corporations typically develop software. Research into how…