A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm
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2000-12
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Feller, Joseph
Fitzgerald, Brian
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Association for Information Systems (AIS)
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Open Source Software (OSS) has become the subject of much commercial interest of late. Certainly, OSS seems to hold much promise in addressing the core issues of the software crisis, namely that of software taking too long to develop, exceeding its budget, and not working very well. Indeed, there have been several examples of significant OSS success stories—the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the BIND domain name resolution utility, to name but a few. However, little by way of rigorous academic research on OSS has been conducted to date. In this study, a framework was derived from two previous frameworks which have been very influential in the IS field, namely that of Zachman’s IS architecture (ISA) and Checkland’s CATWOE framework from Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). The resulting framework is used to analyze the OSS approach in detail. The potential future of OSS research is also discussed.
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Open Source Software (OSS) , IS architecture (ISA) , Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) , Information systems
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Feller, J. and Fitzgerald, B. (2000) 'A Framework Analysis of the Open Source Software Development Paradig', ICIS 2000: Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10-13 December., pp. 58-69. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359723
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© Association for Information Systems 2000. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Information Systems, (ICIS2000), pp. 58-69, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359723