Software ecosystem explained

Software Ecosystem is a book written by David G. Messerschmitt and Clemens Szyperski that explains the essence and effects of a "software ecosystem", defined as a set of businesses functioning as a unit and interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with relationships among them. These relationships are frequently underpinned by a common technological platform and operate through the exchange of information, resources, and artifacts.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

The term in software analysis

In the context of software analysis, the term software ecosystem is defined by Lungu ^[6] as “a collection of software projects, which are developed and co-evolve in the same environment”. The environment can be organizational (a company), social (an open-source community), or technical (the Ruby ecosystem). The ecosystem metaphor is used in order to denote an analysis which takes into account multiple software systems.^[7] The most frequent of such analyses is static analysis of the source code of the component systems of the ecosystem.

External links

• European workshop on software ecosystems
• International workshop on software ecosystems
• Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures

Notes and References

1. Book: David G. Messerschmitt . Clemens Szyperski . Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry . 2003 . MIT Press . Cambridge, MA, USA . 978-0-262-13432-3.
2. Book: Slinger Jansen . . . Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry . 2013 . Edward Elgar . 978-1781955628.
3. Book: Karl M. Popp . Ralf Meyer . Profit from Software Ecosystems: Business Models, Ecosystems and Partnerships in the Software Industry . 2010 . BOD . Norderstedt, Germany . 978-3-8423-0051-4.
4. Barbara Farbey . . Software acquisition: A business strategy analysis . Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering . 76–83 . IEEE . 2001 . 10.1109/ISRE.2001.948546 .
5. Slinger Jansen . Anthony Finkelstein . . Providing transparency in the business of software: A modeling technique for software supply networks . Proceedings of the 8th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises . 2007 . IFIP . 978-0-387-73797-3 . 10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0. 10773/9367 . free .
6. Ph.D. . Mircea . Lungu . Reverse Engineering Software Ecosystems . University of Lugano . 2009.
7. Web site: Why apps are more than icons on your mobile and they're more often software ecosystems. | Blog | Crystalnix . 2012-11-23 . dead . https://archive.today/20130120005654/http://crystalnix.com/blog/2012/11/23/software-ecosystems/ . 2013-01-20 .