CALIBRE en la cresta de la ola europea del Software de Código Abierto

los autores describen brevemente el proyecto CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for LIBRE Software), un conjunto de acciones financiado por la Comisión Europea para mejorar la investigación europea en el área del SL

CALIBRE at the crest of European open source software wave

CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for Libre Software)l, a EUR I.S million EU-funded project which aims to revolutionise how European industry leverages software and services, was officially launched on Friday 10 September 2004 in Ireland. CALIBRE comprises an interdisciplinary consortium of 12 academic and industrial research teams from Ireland, France, Ital y, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and China

Assessing the Role of Open Source Software in the European Secondary Software Sector: A Voice from Industry

This paper addresses the open source software (OSS) phenomenon from an industry perspective and reveals a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the secondary software sector. It presents the research results of an international workshop which was hosted with the explicit intention of extracting the voice of key industrial stakeholders. The data was gathered and analysed using a qualitative approach which revealed the key strengths and weaknesses of OSS from an industrial perspective. This formed the foundations for developing a framework describing the emerging commercial incarnation of OSS (we refer to this as Open Source Software, Inc.) The paper concludes that the European secondary software sector recognise the benefits of leveraging OSS but are aware of key issues pertinent to such an end

Assessing the role of open source software in the European secondary software sector: a voice from industry

This paper addresses the open source software (OSS) phenomenon from an industry perspective and reveals a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the secondary software sector. It presents the research results of an international workshop which was hosted with the explicit intention of extracting the voice of key industrial stakeholders. The data was gathered and analysed using a qualitative approach which revealed the key strengths and weaknesses of OSS from an industrial perspective. This formed the foundations for developing a framework describing the emerging commercial incarnation of OSS (we refer to this as Open Source Software, Inc.) The paper concludes that the European secondary software sector recognise the benefits of leveraging OSS but are aware of key issues pertinent to such an end

12 (not so) easy pieces: grand challenges for open source software

12 (not so) easy pieces: grand challenges for open source softwar