eBRC Research Report 38

Open Source Software Management Framework

Nina Helander, Timo Aaltonen, Teemu Mikkonen, Ville Oksanen, Mikko Puhakka, Marko Seppänen, Tere Vadén, Niklas Vainio

Open source software (OSS) not only challenges the conventional ways of developing software, but it is also a basis for new businesses and business models. Companies that use OSS in their business need a comprehensive view on how to deal with the phenomena, not just one narrow view from a specific scientific discipline. To provide answers to the multifaceted phenomena four Finnish universities in co-operation with several companies launched a multidisciplinary Tekes funded project titled OSSI - Managing Open Source Software as an Integrated Part of Business. The research project aims to build a management framework providing answers to companies' practical challenges regarding the utilization of open source software.

The main results of OSSI research project are summarized in this report that serves as the final report of the project. The report concentrates on presenting the tools and models that together form the OSS management framework. The results are written by keeping mind the needs of companies, as OSSI project has foremost been an industry driven research guiding the researchers to work together to bring multidisciplinary, but yet unified view for companies looking to utilize OSS.

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Distribution
eBRC
Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere

Published by
Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and
University of Tampere (UTA)

Printed edition ISSN 1459-0158 ISBN 978-952-15-1855-3 (TUT) 978-951-44-7110-0 (UTA)	Electronic edition ISSN 1459-0166 ISBN 978-952-15-1856-0 (TUT) 978-951-44-7111-7 (UTA)

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