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Managing a Corporate Open Source Software Asset.

The article presents information on adapting the open source model of software development to a corporate environment. It is argued that such a model can be a suitable starting point for some corporate software development projects. These are described as cases where a technology is immature, featur...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 155 - 160
Main Authors: GURBANI, VIJAY K., GARVERT, ANITA, HERBSLEB, JAMES D.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2010
Subjects:
Open source software
Business software
Computer software development
Teams in the workplace
Intellectual cooperation
Corporate culture
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents information on adapting the open source model of software development to a corporate environment. It is argued that such a model can be a suitable starting point for some corporate software development projects. These are described as cases where a technology is immature, features modular architecture, and is needed by multiple product groups, each of which can contribute to software development. An outline of the ways in which corporate open source (COS) needs to differ from traditional open source models in order to be effective is presented.