Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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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…
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SDN: Is there money in open source services?
IDC’s Matt Lawton recently released a new report about open source adoption: “However, project vendors, project partners, and vendor partners need to step up and provide support and attendant services in order to move the adoption of OSS from early adopters to the mainstream. Only 12% of all projects are supported by a commercial software…
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Onward! 2008 call for papers
Is DNA recombination your inspiration for a new programming language? Or do you simply think it is time to improve generics in Java? Do you think that we need new paradigms for bringing programming to the masses in Second Life and on Wikipedia? That we need new and significantly more robust systems than before that…
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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…
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Towards end-user programming with wikis [WEUSE 2008]
Abstract: When business software fails to provide the desired functionality, users typically turn to spreadsheets to perform simple but general computational tasks. However, spreadsheets enforce a view of the world that consists mostly of tables and numbers rather than the domain concepts users have in mind. We are using wikis as a platform for empowering…
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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…