DECUS / Fujitsu / NEC / Unisys / Digital Equipment Corporation / Novell / BSD / Apple Computer / Red Hat / NCR / NextStep / NeXT / Siemens / Apple / Dell / IBM / SuSE / Leverage Apple Computer / AT&T / Sun Microsystems / SHARE / Hess / HP / Compaq / BeOS / Intel / Microsoft / Project GNU / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Company Expansion / M&A / Reorganization / Funding / /
Facility
One Washington Square / University of California / Open Source Platform Strategies Joel West1 College of Business / San José State University / / /
IndustryTerm
technology innovation / technology contest / server operating systems / system administration tools / packaged software / free software / platforms displaced more specialized products / software standards / licensed technology / “whole product / respective technology initiatives / open source software / software developer / integrated computing platforms / prepackaged application software / value chain / software development / distributed software programs / multi-processing / software supply / computer systems manufacturer / software enhancements / software availability / application software / Internet standards / peripheral hardware / software suppliers / software ownership / open source software projects / Apache web server / computer maker / sendmail mail server / open source technologies / for-profit software developers / technology strategy / given technology / open source systems / computer makers / integrated manufacturer / software library / software development tools / prepackaged application software packages / hardware-independent operating systems / software applications / collaborative software development / onetime supplier / server applications / software layers / /
OperatingSystem
Unix / VAX/VMS / OpenBSD / AIX / CP/M / FreeBSD / Solaris / Unix-like / Microsoft Windows / Windows 95 / AS/400 / A/UX / Linux / Macintosh / OSF/1 / MS-DOS / NetBSD / DOS / GNU / Windows NT / POSIX / /
Organization
Academy of Management / Open Software Foundation / School of Management / San José State University / MIT / University of California / Berkeley / Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies Joel West1 College of Business / /
Person
Linus Torvalds / Georg von Krogh / Steve Jobs / Richard Stallman / Eric von Hippel / Scott Ensign / Jason Dedrick / / /
Position
original author for subsequent redistribution / producer / CEO / programmer / software developer / founder / /
RAM / Linux / API / operating system / mobile devices / given technology / Java / open source technologies / GUI / Unix / VAX-11 processor / Unix operating system / operating systems / still fundamentally licensed technology / RISCbased processors / web server / /
How Open is Open Enough? Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies Joel West1 College of Business, San José State University, One Washington Square, San José, CA[removed]USA December 31, 2002