Paper Info
Title
The use of open source software platforms by Independent Software Vendors: issues and opportunities
Abstract
The Cast4All Content Conductor Platform is an integration and provisioning suite to manage data broadcasting networks in general and digital cinema networks in particular. The framework makes extensive use of open source components and contains several extensions and modifications to those components. It is a typical case of an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) building application software on top of open source platform software. In the spirit of the open source movement, the extensions or modifications to the open source components could be contributed back to the community. However, in this paper we discuss several issues that companies face in such a situation. They extend far beyond the obvious decision whether to keep the developed code proprietary, and should not be neglected. It is argued that a closer collaboration between open source projects and independent software vendors would be beneficial to all.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1083258.1083266
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Field
DocType
Volume
Open platform,Software engineering,Computer science,Software peer review,Software as a service,Backporting,Software construction,Software framework,Software development,Social software engineering
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
4
0163-5948
1-59593-127-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
0.45
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Herwig Mannaert132032.38
Kris Ven228421.13