International audienceOpen source software adoption in the embedded systems domain is gaining growing interest within the european industrial and academic communities due to the significant benefits it brings in terms of flexibility and cost reduction.Nonetheless, scepticism about open source as a viable option to support critical business functions still holds, since its decentralized and distributed development model makes quality evaluation and assessment hard to achieve. This paper reports the SHARE project experience, aimed at facilitating and promoting the use of open source software in the embedded systems industry. Performed activities, proposed methodology and achieved results are presented, along with lessons learned to exploit for enabling further initiatives in the next future
