Software ecosystems is an emerging trend within the software industry, implying a shift from
closed organizations and processes towards open structures, where actors external to the …

Software product line companies increasingly expand their platform outside their
organizational boundaries, in effect transitioning to a software ecosystem approach. In this …

Traditionally, software engineering has been dominated by stand-alone development
organizations and collaborations between contractors, integrators and suppliers. In the last …

Abstract 'Software ecosystems' is argued to first appear as a concept more than 10 years
ago and software ecosystem research started to take off in 2010. We conduct a systematic …

Increasing attention is being paid to connectivity and dependency in relationships between
companies. Innovations no longer originate in a single organization; rather they are co …

It has become an increasingly common practice for software companies to collaborate with
external developers in order to develop software platforms for a shared market, constituting …

The concept of a Software ecosystem is gaining in popularity amongst large organizations
and inherently relies on the adoption of common architectural development for multiple …

This book describes the state-of-the-art of software ecosystems. It constitutes a fundamental
step towards an empirically based, nuanced understanding of the implications for …

This example illustrates the complex pattern of relationships among key players within the
software sector, where no one firm can supply every software product that customers need …

A software ecosystem is the interaction of a set of actors on top of a common technological
platform that results in a number of software solutions or services. Arguably, software …