An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 8 - Volume 8
The Many Meanings of Open Source
IEEE Software
Towards Rules and Laws for Software Factories and Evolvability: A Case-Driven Approach
ICSEA '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Analyzing software licenses in open architecture software systems
FLOSS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
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
Reliability analysis and optimal version-updating for open source software
Information and Software Technology
A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software
Information and Software Technology
Understanding the role of licenses and evolution in open architecture software ecosystems
Journal of Systems and Software
Journal of Systems and Software
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Open Source Software (OSS) has already been adopted by a large number of organizations. An important - but sometimes neglected - group of OSS users are Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). ISVs often develop their applications on top of OSS platform software. Frequently, this requires making several extensions and modifications to these OSS components. We identify a number of challenges that ISVs face in handling these extensions and modifications. Next, we describe several strategies ISVs can follow in maintaining these modifications. Finally, we suggest an opportunity for a closer collaboration between OSS projects and ISVs which could be mutually beneficial.