1. Selection of OSS components Øyvind Hauge [email_address] Based on Challenges of the Open Source Component Marketplace in the Industry Claudia Ayala, Øyvind Hauge, Reidar Conradi, Xavier Franch, Jingyue Li, and Ketil Sandanger Velle
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jigsaw_red_10.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jigsaw.png Software reuse may give Reduced time to market Increased quality More features However, you have to find a piece which fits or adapt it to fit (glue or modifications)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TourEiffel(Paris).JPG Compare a software systems with a building Have to live with them for a long time Could be hard to replace individual pieces
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puzzle_pieces.jpg There are a lot of possible pieces available Many of these have changed quite a lot in a short time Hard to maintain a complete overview of them all
http://aigaion.nl http://apache.org http://code.google.com http://sf.net http://blog.phpdeveloper.org/ In the marketplace on the Internet there are many stakeholders e.g. Reusers, Provides, Search Mechanisms, Promoters, Intermediarys All of these stakeholders have different objectives/agendas The information might be reliable and relevant but it might as well be unreliable and irrelevant