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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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 155 - 160
Autores principales:	GURBANI, VIJAY K., GARVERT, ANITA, HERBSLEB, JAMES D.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Feb2010
Materias:	Open source software Business software Computer software development Teams in the workplace Intellectual cooperation Corporate culture
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Sumario:	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.