Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies

Joost Dijkers; Rowan Sincic; Nicole Wasankhasit; Slinger Jansen

doi:10.1145/3194124.3194126

Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies

Joost Dijkers, Rowan Sincic, Nicole Wasankhasit, Slinger Jansen

Utrecht University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	48-55
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450357302
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3194124.3194126
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2018
Event	ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018, held in conjunction with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 27 May 2018 → …

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Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)	0270-5257

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Conference	ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018, held in conjunction with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	27/05/18 → …

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financial performance
open source software
OSEHO
software ecosystem health

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Dijkers, J., Sincic, R., Wasankhasit, N., & Jansen, S. (2018). Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies. In Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018 (pp. 48-55). (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194124.3194126

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Dijkers, J, Sincic, R, Wasankhasit, N & Jansen, S 2018, Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies. in Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018. Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE, pp. 48-55, ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018, held in conjunction with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194124.3194126

Exploring the effect of software ecosystem health on the financial performance of the open source companies. / Dijkers, Joost; Sincic, Rowan; Wasankhasit, Nicole et al.
Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 1st International Workshop on Software Health, SoHeal 2018. IEEE, 2018. p. 48-55 (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering).

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