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Panel : Open Source Software Successes and Challenges

Panel : Open Source Software Successes and Challenges. Margaret Elliott, ISR Pankaj Garg, ZeeSource Jason Robbins, UCI (formerly Collab.net) Walt Scacchi, ISR (moderator) ISR Research Forum 8 June 2004. Who is investing in OSS?. Large corporations: (IT and Financial)

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Panel : Open Source Software Successes and Challenges

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  1. Panel: Open Source Software Successes and Challenges Margaret Elliott, ISR Pankaj Garg, ZeeSource Jason Robbins, UCI (formerly Collab.net) Walt Scacchi, ISR (moderator) ISR Research Forum 8 June 2004

  2. Who is investing in OSS? • Large corporations: (IT and Financial) • IBM-Eclipse, Sun-NetBeans and OpenOffice, HP-Gelato, Apple-Darwin, Microsoft Research-Rotor, SAP-DB, etc. • Barclays Global Investors, DKW, Merrill Lynch, UBS • Mid-size corporations: • RedHat, Novell, Borland, BEA Systems • Small (start-up) companies: • ActiveState (now part of Sophos), Collab.Net, Jabber, Ximian (now part of Novell), JBoss, Compiere, etc. • Government agencies: • U.S.: DoD, Energy, NSF

  3. Panel questions • What is the basic difference between free versus open source software business models for software development? • What are some notable OSS success stories and why? • Is the OSS repository, SourceForge.net, safe with VA Software in the long-term?

  4. Panel questions • How do you distinguish the good from the bad OSS projects? • What challenges or opportunities will the oss community face next? • How do F/OSS developers earn income from working on free/open source software projects?

  5. Panel questions • How are the successes and challenges of OSS different from or the same as those faced by closed source software development? • Should OSS developers reveal their corporate identities? • How can businesses building proprietary software convert a product to a F/OSS project and continue making profits?

  6. Panel questions • How can the successes and challenges of OSS be understood in traditional software engineering terms? • How can traditional software development organizations learn from the successes and challenges of OSS, or the other way around?

  7. Open sourcesoftware researchWeb site atUCI

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