Software and open source software (OSS) is much destructive force in the software industry. While businesses see OSS success, many of them have trouble picking up the lessons that can be learned from the phenomenon of OSS, OSS development as it seems to be far from traditional business practices and principles. The main observations from the research OSS products is that the development of OSS product innovations not only allows the users themselves, but also to provide a framework for their backup applies to products OSS, a process that improves the interoperability of OSS and is a low cost solution to the more general problem service segmented markets. Argues that the process of innovation management has an important information for commercial software vendors and companies outside of the software industry. "Hide
by Christian Hicks, Dessislava Pachamanova Source: Business Horizons 10 pages. Publication Date: July 1, 2007. Prod. #: BH241-PDF-ENG
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