Search Results - subject:"Software development"

Hybrid Offshoring Composite Personae and Evolving Collaboration Technologies

Denny, Nathan - 2014

discuss the benefits of applying the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory to software development. We also present a representative … scenario highlighting the problems of asynchronous communication in current offshore software development practices. Further … of software and other intangibles into a process of continuous development. While the concept of offshore software …

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Competitive Implications of Software Open-Sourcing

Asundi, Jai - 2014

This paper is concerned with the economic trade-offs associated with open-sourcing, the business strategy of releasing free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source versions on the customers' perception of products is an important determinant...

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A Non-Invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning

Liu, Ying - 2014

The global adoption of RFID technology presents a number of challenges to IT architecture design. This paper identifies important requirements for RFID data provisioning at an abstract architecture level. A non-invasive architecture style is proposed to satisfy these requirements. Our proposed...

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Firms as Incubators of Open Source Software

Dewan, Rajiv M. - 2014

Many successful open source projects have been developed by who were employed by firms but worked on the open source projects on the side due to economic incentives like career improvement benefits. Such side work may be a good thing for the employing firms too if they get some strategic value...

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A Fistful of Dollars : Financial Rewards, Payment Norms, and Motivation Crowding in Open Source Software Development

Alexy, Oliver - 2014

Existing literature on open source software (OSS) maintains that intrinsic motivation and extrinsic financial rewards have a unidimensionally positive effect on the motivation of individual developers. Based on self-determination theory, which underlies most of these studies, we challenge this...

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Patents and Business Models for Software Firms

Allison, John R. - 2014

We analyze the relation between patents and the different business models available to firms in the software industry. The paper builds on Cusumano's work defining the differences among firms that sell products, those that provide services, and the hybrid firms that fall between those polar...

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Open Source, Dual Licensing and Software Competition

Darmon, Eric; Torre, Dominique - 2014

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

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CRM Ontology Based on CMMI Project Planning for Business Applications

Lee, Chang-Shing - 2014

This paper proposes a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Ontology based on CMMI project planning for business application. The CRM ontology describes the CRM project planning knowledge based on CMMI. It contains three categories, including establishing CRM project estimates, developing CRM...

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Dams, Flows and Views : Cross-Aspect Use of Knowledge in Collaborative Software Development

Jastroch, Norbert; Marlowe, Thomas J.; Kirova, Vassilka; … - 2014

Collaboration between organizations raises significant knowledge management issues, especially in software development …

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Harvesting Altruism in Open-Source Software Development

Haruvy, Ernan; Prasad, Ashutosh; Sethi, Suresh - 2014

software development has been advocated as a new and better method for developing high quality software than the traditional …

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