Keynote: Open Source Economics: Stakeholder Perspectives

Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. This talk analyses the economics of open source from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and the individual software developer perspective. A focus is on the distinction between community open source and commercial open source, and how the stakeholders use different approaches to win in the market, for example, to gain market share or to keep a job.

Dirk Riehle, Lead, Open-source Research Group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California Dirk Riehle is a software researcher and entrepreneur. He leads the open-source research group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California. Dirk has worked in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. He was the leader of the team that designed and implemented the first UML virtual machine. In 2005, Dirk started the WikiSym conference series, of which he was the first conference chair. He is interested in all things open source, collective intelligence and wikis, and software architecture. Dirk holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zürich and an M.B.A. from Stanford University