Framing the Conundrum of Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software.
Maha ShaikhTony CornfordPublished in: OSS (2011)
Keyphrases
- open source software
- total cost
- open source
- optimal solution
- software development
- source code
- open source software development
- opportunity cost
- lead time
- planning horizon
- open source projects
- inventory level
- free software
- production cost
- lot size
- setup cost
- average cost
- service level
- holding cost
- minimum total cost
- real world
- fixed cost
- mailing lists
- maintenance effort
- software engineering
- objective function
- artificial intelligence