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Interesting study by O2: http://www.o2.com/media/press_releases/latest_pr_14276.asp The study argues that the former thesis by US psychologist Stanley Milgram following a 1967 experiment has to be updated.  Milgram found that, on average, people needed 5 connections to connect to any other person on the planet.  These six degrees of separation ...

Interesting study by O2: http://www.o2.com/media/press_releases/latest_pr_14276.asp The study argues that the former thesis by US psychologist Stanley Milgram following a 1967 experiment has to be updated.  Milgram found that, on average, people needed 5 connections to connect to any other person on the planet.  These six degrees of separation ...

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 ...

Curt Schacker spins interesting thoughts about the embedded software industry on his blog.  He claims that the industry is geared towards a service model, where vendors work against a Statement of work, rather than providing a product spec and an evaluable product upfront. While I can see this happen in certain parts of the traditional ...

Curt Schacker spins interesting thoughts about the embedded software industry on his blog.  He claims that the industry is geared towards a service model, where vendors work against a Statement of work, rather than providing a product spec and an evaluable product upfront. While I can see this happen in certain parts of the traditional ...

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, ...

Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog: ''1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...

Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog: ''1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...