Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
Goldman, Ron; Gabriel, Richard P.
Language: English
Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005
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- Title
- Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
- Author
- Goldman, Ron; Gabriel, Richard P.
- Publisher
- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1558608893
- ISBN 13
- 9781558608894
- Item weight
- 2.3 pounds
- Winner of 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for General Books
- Describes how open source development works and offers persuasive reasons for using it to help achieve business goals
- Shows how to use open source in day-to-day work, discusses the various licenses in use, and describes what makes for a successful project
- Written in an engaging style for executives, managers, and engineers that addresses the human and business issues involved in open source development as well as its history, philosophy, and future
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About the Author
Richard P. Gabriel received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He has been a researcher at Stanford University, company president and Chief Technical Officer at Lucid, Inc., vice president of Development at ParcPlace-Digitalk, a management consultant for several startups and Sun Microsystems, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.He currently is a Distinguished Engineer and principal investigator of a small research group at Sun Laboratories, researching the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems as well as development techniques for building them. He is one of Sun's open source experts, advising the company on community-based strategies. He is also President of the Hillside Group, a nonprofit that nurtures the software patterns community by holding conferences, publishing books, and awarding scholarships.He is an ACM Fellow, has been a finalist in several poetry manuscript contests, including the National Poetry Series book prize, and has won the Texas Instruments Excellence in Technical Communications Award, the Northeastern University Outstanding Alumni Award, the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award.From the press release for the 2004 Allen Newell award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM):"A man of remarkable breadth and challenging intellect, Richard Gabriel has had a remarkable influence not only on fundamental issues in programming languages and software design but also on the interaction between computer science and other disciplines, notably architecture and poetry. Dr. Gabriel's background spans industry and academia, technology and humanities, introspection and application. He stretches the imagination of computer scientists with ideas and innovations from other fields and thus his role in shaping the growth and impact of obj
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