Challenges in using open source software in product development: a review of the literature
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
Information and Software Technology
Practitioner perceptions of Open Source software in the embedded systems area
Journal of Systems and Software
A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software
Information and Software Technology
Impact of Internal Open Source Development on Reuse: Participatory Reuse in Action
Journal of Management Information Systems
Key factors for adopting inner source
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Since 1997, Philips Healthcare has been developing a software platform for its medical-equipment product line. Initially, the company used a closed-source approach, with a centralized platform development group. In the course of development, this process has evolved into a more open-source approach in which Philips Healthcare's entire software development community contributes to platform development. Making such a transition is not trivial. Given the typical OSS culture, a top-down approach—essentially forcing groups to become suppliers on the internal software market—won't work. For groups to switch from being consumers to being suppliers, they must have incentives and find the prospect attractive. Philips Healthcare has been working toward an internal open-source market for more than five years. In this article, the author describes the company's evolving process along with lessons learned about market mechanisms and business models for the internal software market. The key question guiding their efforts is how to turn software consumers into active producers of the platform assets.