Economic Stakeholders of Open Source

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This talk analyses the economics of open source from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and the individual software developer perspective. A focus is on the distinction between community open source and commercial open source, and how the stakeholders use different approaches to win in the market, e.g. to gain market share or to keep a job.

Biography: Dirk Riehle is a software researcher and entrepreneur. He leads the open-source research group at SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley. Dirk has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. He was the leader of the team that designed and implemented the first UML virtual machine, and he runs the JValue open-source project. In 2005, Dirk started the WikiSym conference series of which he was the first conference chair. Dirk holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zürich and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Sprache:    Deutsch
Gastgeber: Prof. Hirschfeld
Ort:           HS 1
Datum:      Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007
Zeit:          16:00