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Title | ||
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Using eCots Portal for Sharing Information about Software Products on the Internet and in Corporate Intranets p |
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The growing use of COTS software components instead of in-house developments brings non-negligible loss of control of the
systems in which they are used, and increases dependency on COTS components’ producers, particularly critical in the case
of obsolescence. This loss of control and dependency can be compensated only by extremely reliable, accurate and continuously
updated knowledge of the software component market and its trends. It is a matter of factual data, not subjected to interpretation,
on both the actors (producers, distributors and consulting companies) and the products in this market. These data must be
processed on technical, commercial, economical, financial, and legal dimensions. Most industrial groups now try to organize
the collection of COTS information to make it available in-house, but the effort is considerable due to the size and variability
of the software component market and the difficulty in collecting and updating information. This assessment and selection
phase is consequently a hard task for enterprises, particularly for SMEs, which cannot invest enough time or money into COTS
management to gain qualified information. Although specialized companies dedicated to technological analysis and market monitoring
can bring help in the process of collecting software descriptions, the analysis they provide are often expensive and short-
lived. In addition, this information market has not developed a standard for COTS description. This tutorial will describe
eCots, a platform that gathers on a common mutualized portal the raw data on COTS products that is held both by producers
and by the very large community of COTS users.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1007/978-3-540-24645-9_1 | ICCBSS |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
software component | Conference | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.39 | 1 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Christophe Mielnik | 1 | 51 | 1.87 |
| Vincent Bouthors | 2 | 35 | 4.98 |
| Stéphane Laurière | 3 | 22 | 3.67 |
| Bernard Lang | 4 | 2 | 0.39 |