The Future of Software Development 2010

Welcome to the Wiki page of “The Future of Software Development”. Not surprisingly, we’re researching the future of software development. Anyone will agree that software development in general is going to change — and that it has to, to keep up with technical opportunities and business requirements. But how? And what will be the consequences? One of the main topics will be Open Source software, and we’re looking at business issues, as well as technical and organizational ones.

We’re looking forward to investigate some scenarios. But for now, this page is pretty empty..

The Team:

• Jurjen Borst
• Jelmer Cormont
• Harro van Doorn
• Glenn van der Meijden
• Sanjay Ramautar

The Research Problems:

Statistics (Sanjay)

• What is the financial status of open- and closed source?
  • Answer
• What is the usage of open- and closed source? (Percentage)
  • Here an answer too!
• What are the goals of contributing to open source? (Anti MS, what are the *driving forces?)
• Who are the players and what is their share in this? (Companies, developers, users)

People, Quality, Management, Organization (Jurjen)

• How is the structure in a “messy” free community?
• How is the quality assured?
• How is the expertise regarding the complex ICT infrastructure?
• What are the different cultural priorities? (Not reinventing the wheel over and over again)
• How is software logistic distributed?

Technical aspects (Glenn)

• Which organizations are/will be influential in software development?
• What are the expected models/standards?
• What are the current standards and what will be the future standards?
• Will there ever be an universal open source standard/

Money (Jelmer)

• What is the current business model of closed source software?
• What is the current business model of open source software?
• How are open source developers rewarded?
• What is the cohesion of open source and licensing?
• What impact will piracy have?
• How will open source be profitable? (Donation/ commercial usage)

Future (Harro)

• Influence MS vs. open source? And visa versa.
• What will be the impact on an average scale?