Dependable software architectures determine the method of integrating a fault tolerance technique with a given system …, and fault tolerance. Enriching software architecture descriptions by including dependability attributes will enable and … facilitate the reuse of software components. This paper summarizes the different trends in the development of dependable software …

growing software industry, the increasing number of competitors, availability of numerous software development tools and … constantly changing environment of software market, the known attributes and factors of employee behavior such as team size …, requirements, innovation, culture, experience and software development frameworks should be considered to make decision. The …

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

Open Source Digital Library Software packages have much potential for modern Library and Information Centers. It is the … software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. The Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming an increasingly … popular software development method and it provides tips for implementing and evaluating your modulation and suggestions to …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software … (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source … can provide OSS quality upgrades. We find that both types of software can coexist in equilibrium. Furthermore, despite the …

applications to adopt open source software in their firms. We characterize the conditions under which enterprises adopt open source … software. We show that adoption depends crucially on network effects, the fit of software with the range of applications used … architecture that consists of open source and proprietary software. The equilibrium adoption is often socially inefficient. This is …