The mobile landscape has changed quite dramatically over the past few years, with the emergence of new mobile platforms and a significant shift toward open source in mobile technologies. What are the key economic drivers for this shift, and what are the lessons that can be learnt from the mobile industry's adoption of open source?
This talk draws on Andrew's experiences as Open Source Manager for the LiMo Foundation. It looks at how and why open source has become commonplace in mobile platform development, and the advantages and pitfalls of using open source.
24. Where an open mobile
platform is already using key
open source projects of
Mobile critical importance, there is
direct economic value in
Open Source constructive engagement with
Economic Analysis the corresponding open
source communities.
LiMo Foundation White Paper
August 2009
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White Paper 1
blog.limofoundation.org/index.php/LiMo-Foundation/Mining-of-Open-Source-Code-to-Understand-the-Economics-of-Using-Open-Source-Within-Mobile.html
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25. Maintenance is the
biggest cost in the TCO of
Community Open Source
Software...
Product code
Internal “fork”
Upstream open source
“unleveraged potential”
27. Merge Never
$40m / 283 FTEs per year
Merge Late Contribute Late
$20m / 141 FTEs per year
Merge Early Contribute Later
$10m / 70 FTEs per year
Merge Early Contribute Early
$8.3m / 24 FTEs per year
28. Cost of
upstream
resync
Closer integration with
Community open source
upstream innovation
development codeline
Greater sophistication
required to manage MN
integration activity MLCL
With ME, the Resync
vendor’s internal MECL (merge)
dev branch is OSS with
MECE Contribute upstream
upstream later
Time
Product development cycle approx 2 years
Software selection decision Product shipment
made at this point made at this point
29. Working with open source is a
sophisticated supply chain
management problem ...
... not rocket science.
34. “the evolution of software has been anything but linear in the
last two years; Google’s Android, an operating system that
was greeted with skepticism in 2008 become a launchpad for
just about everyone working within the mobile industry.”
source:VisionMobile
www.visionmobile.com/blog/2010/06/lead-innovate-or-assemble-how-software-is-changing-the-macro-economics-of-mobile-handsets-2/