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Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

Another victory of open source over closed-source vendors is now official when Oracle dumped its Toplink O/R mapper (which had performed dismally against Hibernate) into the open source space. We have seen those dumpware projects before with Ingres, Versant's JDO and so on.  None of them has been successful.  It's just a decent form of ...

Another victory of open source over closed-source vendors is now official when Oracle dumped its Toplink O/R mapper (which had performed dismally against Hibernate) into the open source space. We have seen those dumpware projects before with Ingres, Versant's JDO and so on.  None of them has been successful.  It's just a decent form of ...

A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

From Charles Babcock in InformationWeek:1. A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial--or at least motivated--user group offering ideas. 2. Disruptive goals Does something notably better than commercial code. Free isn't enough. 3. A benevolent dictator Leader who can inspire ...

From Charles Babcock in InformationWeek:1. A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial--or at least motivated--user group offering ideas. 2. Disruptive goals Does something notably better than commercial code. Free isn't enough. 3. A benevolent dictator Leader who can inspire ...

The open source year 2006 is coming to an end.  While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review:Open source companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...

The open source year 2006 is coming to an end.  While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review:Open source companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...