TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies
AU - Dijkers, Joost
AU - Sincic, Rowan
AU - Wasankhasit, Nicole
AU - Jansen, Slinger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ACM.
PY - 2018/5/28
Y1 - 2018/5/28
N2 - Background. It is currently unknown how software ecosystem health affects the financial performance of open source companies. This is a problem, because open source is becoming increasingly popular and more knowledge is necessary for companies on how to capitalize on this phenomenon. Objectives. With this paper, insight is developed into the relation between software ecosystem health and financial performance of the open source company that nurtures it. Method. A case study on two open source companies, Cloudera and Hortonworks, is performed. The software ecosystem health and financial performance of both companies are assessed. Results. Cloudera is healthier in terms of robustness and niche creation, while Hortonworks is healthier in terms of productivity. Financially, Cloudera performs better than Hortonworks. Conclusion. The following hypotheses are formulated. Software ecosystem health has an expected positive relation with financial performance. Niche creation health is the main contributor to this relation, robustness health is a minor reason for this relation, and software ecosystem productivity health has little to no influence.
AB - Background. It is currently unknown how software ecosystem health affects the financial performance of open source companies. This is a problem, because open source is becoming increasingly popular and more knowledge is necessary for companies on how to capitalize on this phenomenon. Objectives. With this paper, insight is developed into the relation between software ecosystem health and financial performance of the open source company that nurtures it. Method. A case study on two open source companies, Cloudera and Hortonworks, is performed. The software ecosystem health and financial performance of both companies are assessed. Results. Cloudera is healthier in terms of robustness and niche creation, while Hortonworks is healthier in terms of productivity. Financially, Cloudera performs better than Hortonworks. Conclusion. The following hypotheses are formulated. Software ecosystem health has an expected positive relation with financial performance. Niche creation health is the main contributor to this relation, robustness health is a minor reason for this relation, and software ecosystem productivity health has little to no influence.
KW - financial performance
KW - open source software
KW - OSEHO
KW - software ecosystem health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051495383&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3194124.3194126
DO - 10.1145/3194124.3194126
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051495383
SN - 9781450357302
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 48
EP - 55
BT - Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018
PB - IEEE
T2 - ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018, held in conjunction with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Y2 - 27 May 2018
ER -