Schwab B, Riehle D, Barcomb A, Harutyunyan N (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 2020
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Open Source Systems 2020 (OSS 2020)
Event location: Innopolis
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47240-5_1
Companies without expertise in software development can opt to form consortia to develop open source software to meet their needs, as an alternative to the build-or-buy decision. Such user-led foundations are little understood, due to a limited number of published examples. In particular, almost nothing is known about the ecosystems surrounding user-led foundations. Our work seeks to address this gap, through an exploratory qualitative survey of openKONSEQUENZ, from the German energy sector. We find that the technological goals are quite homogeneous, independent of a participant’s role in the ecosystem, but that economic conflicts exist between foundation members and supplier companies due to the consortium’s efforts to transform the software market structure to limit dependency on specific vendors.
APA:
Schwab, B., Riehle, D., Barcomb, A., & Harutyunyan, N. (2020). The Ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a User-Led Open Source Foundation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Open Source Systems 2020 (OSS 2020). Innopolis: Springer Verlag.
MLA:
Schwab, Bettina, et al. "The Ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a User-Led Open Source Foundation." Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Open Source Systems 2020, Innopolis Springer Verlag, 2020.
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