Prior network-based research on open source software (OSS) development has focused on the benefit of network ties and assumed all network ties play the same role. We adopt a fine-grained view of network relations to investigate the impact of network ties on the success of OSS development. Through examining the development of OSS projects hosted by SourceForge, we find that co-membership among p...

Research Article Namjoo Choi University of Kentucky [email protected] Indushobha Chengalur-Smith University at Albany, SUNY [email protected] Saggi Nevo University at Albany, SUNY [email protected] Extant research on open source software (OSS) has primarily focused on software developers and active users but has paid limited attention to the less visible “passive” users who form the silent maj...

Software firms participate in an ecosystem as a part of their innovation strategy to extend value creation beyond the firm’s boundary. Participation in an open and independent environment also implies the competition among firms with similar business models and targeted markets. Hence, firms need to consider potential opportunities and challenges upfront. This study explores how software firms ...

Now, the telecom service providers are faced with significant challenges as the traditional separated network and service become converged. Customers move to care more about the quality of service, such as the provision time, fault disposal, bill management, and security issues, other than networks. The carriers must integrate their core legacy mainframe operation support systems (OSS) with new...

Initialized by a collective contribution of volunteer developers, Open source software (OSS) attracts an increasing involvement of commercial firms. Many OSS projects are composed of a mix group of firm-paid and volunteer developers, with different motivations, collaboration practices and working styles. As OSS development consists of collaborative works in nature, it is important to know wheth...

Abstract—Background: Understanding the condition of OSS projects is important to analyze features and predict the future of projects. In the field of demography and economics, health and wealth are considered to understand the condition of a country. Aim: In this paper, we apply this framework to OSS projects to understand the communities and the evolution of OSS projects from the perspectives ...

The underlying mechanisms of decision-making behaviour are poorly understood. Oviposition site selection (OSS) in the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly provides a useful system for studying simple decision-making. OSS is influenced by both genetic and environmental variation. Variation of the foraging gene (for) is known to affect OSS. Given a choice of highand low-nutrient oviposition sites, g...

OSS embodies the operations that telcos must carry out to meet customer satisfaction and generate revenue. Current and emerging OSS requirements place very strict requirements on the telecommunication management architecture. The distributed mediation-based management architecture has shown the kind of capability required to handle the ever-changing OSS needs. A mediation-based management syste...

This study focuses on theory building providing a holistic conceptual framework that consists of an ontology based OSS business model and an OSS business model taxonomy. The study extends existing theory in OSS business models and corresponding taxonomies, based on the structured-case methodological approach. An exploratory study is conducted in two research cycles, for the identification, vali...