The software product development involves different stakeholders such as suppliers, vendors, customers, project development team, senior management and functional managers. The project manager is very much dependent on external stakeholders such as vendors. Vendor selection, contract...

As the quality of open source software increased dramatically over the last decade and important commercial producers, as IBM, Oracle, Novell and also Microsoft are becoming part of the movement, it is important to review and determine the current state in open source software development. This...

What affects software productivity and how to improve it... still an issue for researchers and developers of large software systems. The economics of software maintenance continues to be a huge problem as software maintenance includes not only fixing programming bugs but new features identified...

We examine optimal control decisions regarding pricing, network size and hiring strategy in the context of open source software development. Opening the source code to a software product often implies that consumers would not pay for the software product itself. However, revenues may be...

This study examines whether developers learn from their experience and from interactions with peers in OSS projects. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is proposed that allows us to investigate (1) the extent to which OSS developers actually learn from their own experience and from interactions with...

Open source software development may be superior to proprietary development because the open source organizational form naturally minimizes transactions costs associated with privately distributed information, thereby avoiding certain agency problems. This manifests itself in the ability of open...