In this growing era of complex computation and robotics, software reliability is a major concern for software developers. The development of high-quality software, with cost, time, and customer satisfaction as driving forces, reuse of modules/components are on the rise. In a component-based...

This Article provides the first systematic account of software applications as works of scholarship. Software is scholarship to the extent that software functionality is derived from scholarly research, software is used as a means to develop scholarship, or software is used as a medium to...

Open Source Digital Library Software packages have much potential for modern Library and Information Centers. It is the software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. The Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming an increasingly popular software development method and it...

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the...

21st century is acknowledged for its information outburst, technological innovation and also for transmission of such information through Human Resource Information System for successful functioning of organizations. HRIS facilitates retrieval of information quickly and accurately which allows...

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source code disclosure and royalty payments. The OSS is...

Resolving governance disputes is of vital importance for communities. Gathering data from GitHub communities, we employ hybrid inductive methods to study discussions around initiation and change of software licenses—a fundamental and potentially contentious governance issue. First, we apply...

Most of the software organizations often strive hard while deciding the release dates of their software product. This is because no organization wants to take risks where the fault is revealed in the developed product on the client-side. This will lead to expensive bug-fixes, and the image of...

A large proportion of our online activity takes place through a handful of platforms. With increased hostility towards the prevalence of vertical integration in tech markets and calls for the breaking up of profitable technology companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, the time is...