Business Firms' Engagement in Community Projects. Empirical Evidence and Further Developments of the Research

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Lorenzi, D; Merito, Monica; Rossi, Cristina

doi:10.1109/floss.2007.3

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“…integrating or extending Hibernate, Google Web Toolkit, Plone) [8,43,186] Participating in the development of OSS products controlled by another organization or community (e.g. contributing to Linux, Eclipse, OpenOffice.org) [28,101,158] Providing their own OSS products and relating to a community around these products (e.g. providing MySQL, Qt, JBoss) [7,17,202] Using software development practices, often associated with OSS communities, within a company or consortium of companies (e.g.…”

Section: Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From Figure 4 we see that the contexts where the research is performed come from both the private and public sector. However, the papers often focus on large communities such as GNOME and Debian GNU/Linux, portals like SourceForge [20,28,101,158], large companies as Nokia, Philips Medical, and Hewlett Packard [107,135,203], and well known OSS companies like MySQL and JBoss [49,202]. However, this bias was not as significant as expected.…”

Section: The Contexts In Which Research Is Donementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the majority of organizations contribute on a rather limited level, the total body of all organizations contributes substantially to various OSS products [28,158]. First, Bonaccorsi et al [28] report that organizations participated in 97 of the 300 most active projects on SourceForge.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Hauge¹,

Ayala²,

Conradi³

2010

Information and Software Technology

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Context: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software. Objective: This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations. Method: Based on the systematic literature review method we reviewed publications from 24 journals and seven conference and workshop proceedings, published between 1998 and 2008. From a population of 24289 papers, we identified 112 papers which provide empirical evidence on how organizations actually adopt OSS. Results: We show that adopting OSS involves more than simply using OSS products. We moreover provide a classification framework consisting of six distinctly different ways in which organizations adopt OSS. This framework is used to illustrate some of the opportunities and challenges organizations meet when approaching OSS, to show that OSS can be adopted successfully in different ways, and to organize and review existing research. We find that this research does not sufficiently describe the context of the organizations studied. It is furthermore fragmented and fails to benefit fully from related research fields. Finally, we present directions for future research.

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Section: Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Contexts In Which Research Is Donementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Hauge¹,

Ayala²,

Conradi³

2010

Information and Software Technology

195

113

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“…Companies are already known to be contributing by allowing employees spend their time at work participating in OSS projects [10]. Companies are among others involved in 97 of the 300 most active SourceForge projects [2]. However, this is most likely not representative for all of SourceForge's more than 170 000 projects.…”

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Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

Hauge

Sørensen

Conradi

2008

IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Is Open Source Software (OSS) undergoing a transformation to a more commercially viable form? We have performed a survey to investigate the adoption of OSS in the Norwegian software industry. The survey was based on an extensive screening of software companies, with more than 700 responses. The survey results support the transformation predicted by Fitzgerald [4]. Close to 50% of the software industry integrate OSS components into vertical solutions serving all major business sectors. In addition, more than 30% of the 95 respondents in our survey have more than 40% of their income from OSS related services or software. The extensive adoption of OSS in the software industry may be a precursor of the OSS adoption in other business sectors.

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“…They also have to learn the ways of the community and adjust to the rhythms and the demands of OSS development [2]. In contrast, volunteer developers are usually motivated by social or technical reasons to demonstrate or improve one's technical skills [9] [25].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects

Duc¹,

Cruzes²,

Ayala³

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Born as a movement of collective contribution of volunteer developers, Open source software (OSS) attracts an increasing involvement of commercial firms. Many OSS projects are composed of a mix group of firmpaid and volunteer developers, with different motivation, collaboration practices and working styles. As OSS is collaborative work in nature, it is important to know whether these differences have an impact on project outcomes. In this paper, we empirically investigate the firm-paid participation in resolving OSS evolution issues, the stakeholder collaboration and its impact on OSS issue resolution time. The results suggest that though a firm-paid developer resolves much more issues than a volunteer developer does, there is no difference in issue resolution time between firm-paid and volunteer developers. Besides, the more important factor that influences the issue resolution time comes from the collaboration among stakeholders rather than from measures of individual characteristics.

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Business Firms' Engagement in Community Projects. Empirical Evidence and Further Developments of the Research

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects

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