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Modelling and Applying OSS Adoption Strategies
Lidia López, Dolors Costal,
Claudia P. Ayala, Xavier Franch, Ruediger Glott,
Kirsten Haaland
Abstract.
Increasing adoption of Open Source
Software (OSS) in information system engineering has led to the emergence of
different OSS business strategies that affect and shape organizations’ business
models. In this context, organizational modeling needs to reconcile efficiently
OSS adoption strategies with business strategies and models. In this paper, we
propose to embed all the knowledge about each OSS adoption strategy into an i* model that can be used in the intentional
modeling of the organization. These models describe the consequences of
adopting one such strategy or another: which are the business goals that are
supported, which are resources that emerge, etc. To this aim, we first
enumerate the main existing OSS adoption strategies, next we formulate an
ontology that comprises the activities and resources that characterise these
strategies, then based on the experience of 5 industrial partners of the
RISCOSS EU-funded project, we explore how these elements are managed in each
strategy and formulate the corresponding model using the i* framework.
