Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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Startupinformatik

“Startupinformatik” is a German term for “informatics (computer science) for startups” that I just made up. It is intended to be close to “Wirtschaftsinformatik”, which is German for “informatics for businesses”. So it is about the business of startups and the role software (IT) plays in it. You can read my prior thoughts Enjoy!

2012-02-26
Definition of disruptive technology

I got asked three times this week what “disruptive” means so here is my definition 🙂 A technology is disruptive, if it allows new companies to shake up an established market and win against established large companies.

2012-02-02
Why open source is good for German software businesses

I’m on the expert advisory committee of one of the German parties for the current “Internet Enquette”, a commission tasked by the German parliament with suggesting future directions for Germany’s stance toward the Internet and everything digital. At a meeting this evening, a lobbyist confided in me: “Open source is bad for German software vendors!”…

2012-01-16
Cloud Computing is not a Business Model

I’m at the Dagstuhl Seminar “Information Management in the Cloud” where I keynoted about cloud computing businesses models. Given that I’m hardly a cloud computing expert this may seem like a stretch, however, the organizers had asked me to talk about my open source experience and relate this to cloud computing. This perspective turned out…

2011-08-11
On the Open Cloud Principles: Every Real-World Specification is an Underspecification

Trying to wrap my head around the Open Cloud Principles put out by the revamp of the Open Cloud Initiative, I’m happy to note that software engineering research has something to say to the challenges these principles will face. Every real-world specification is an underspecification. So, well, I say that, but I doubt that I’m…

2011-07-29
Controlling and steering open source projects [Computer Magazine]

The IEEE just published a short version of the “control points and steering mechanisms” article. Here is the abstract. Please see the original for more details. Abstract: Open source software has become an important part of the software business. In a 2009 survey, Forrester Research found that 46 percent of all responding enterprises were using…

2011-07-18