DocumentCode
176049
Title
Industry Questions about Open Source Software in Business: Research Directions and Potential Answers
Author
Ihara, Akinori ; Monden, Akito ; Matsumoto, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ikoma, Japan
fYear
2014
fDate
12-13 Nov. 2014
Firstpage
55
Lastpage
59
Abstract
As open source software (OSS) has become an integral part of today´s software businesses, many software companies rely on OSS to develop their customer solutions and products. On the other hand, they face various concerns in using OSS, such as technical support, quality, security and licensing issues. This paper focuses on OSS-related FAQ in industry, and tries to answer them or to provide research directions based on lessons learned from recent mining OSS repository researches.
Keywords
computer centres; public domain software; software houses; OSS repository research; customer solutions; industry questions; open source software; software businesses; software companies; Communities; Companies; Industries; Licenses; Open source software; Software engineering; Industry Software Engineering; Mining Software Repository; Open Source Software;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP), 2014 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Osaka
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IWESEP.2014.12
Filename
6976023
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