Managing External Innovation: The Case of Platform Extensions
Managing External Innovation: The Case of Platform Extensions Managing External Innovation: The Case of Platform Extensions
four projects was chosen using theoretical sampling. The last four projects selected had the potential to extend and refine the initial results (Eisenhardt, 1989). Table 5. Platform cases included in the research sample No Platform Wave 1 Eclipse platform 2 3 4 IBM WebSphere Application Sever Mozilla Firefox browser Spring framework, open source 1 Institution hosts/ owns the platform The Eclipse foundation IBM Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation VMWare, Inc. Platform website http://www.eclipse.org/platf orm/ http://www-01.ibm.com/ software/webservers/appser v/was/ http://www.mozilla.com/en- US/firefox/firefox.html http://www.springsource.org 5 Spring framework, commercial VMWare, Inc. http://www.springsource.co m/products /enterprise 6 Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation (ASF) 7 IBM HTTP Server IBM 2 http://httpd.apache.org/ http://www- 01.ibm.com/software/webse rvers/httpservers/ 8 OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.openoffice.org/i ndex.html 9 StarOffice 3 Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com/softwar e/staroffice/ 10 11 JBoss Application Server JBoss Application Server, enterprise edition Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. http://jboss.org/jbossas/ http://www.jboss.com/produ cts/platforms/application/?s _kwcid=TC|8574|applicatio n%20server||S|p|368917973 1 35
No Platform Wave 12 MySQL Database Server Institution hosts/ owns the platform Sun Microsystems, Inc. Platform website http://www.mysql.com/ 3.3.5 Collect Data Building platform profile For each platform we build a profile based on the information available on the platform website and from the literature. The platform profile consists of 4 sections: platform architecture, collaboration mode, structure of the extensions developer community, and the platform regulatory instrument. Table 6 shows platform profile sections and the source of data for each section. Table 6. Platform profile sections, description and data source No. Section Description Data source 1 Platform architecture Represents a brief description for the platform extensible architecture and the different integration levels of extensions Platform website pages like: platform architecture, overview; also the literature 36
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No <strong>Platform</strong> Wave<br />
12<br />
MySQL Database<br />
Server<br />
Institution hosts/<br />
owns the platform<br />
Sun Microsystems,<br />
Inc.<br />
<strong>Platform</strong> website<br />
http://www.mysql.com/<br />
3.3.5 Collect Data<br />
Building platform pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />
For each platform we build a pr<strong>of</strong>ile based on the information available on the platform<br />
website and from the literature. <strong>The</strong> platform pr<strong>of</strong>ile consists <strong>of</strong> 4 sections: platform<br />
architecture, collaboration mode, structure <strong>of</strong> the extensions developer community, and<br />
the platform regulatory instrument. Table 6 shows platform pr<strong>of</strong>ile sections and the<br />
source <strong>of</strong> data for each section.<br />
Table 6. <strong>Platform</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>ile sections, description and data source<br />
No. Section Description Data source<br />
1 <strong>Platform</strong><br />
architecture<br />
Represents a brief description for the<br />
platform extensible architecture and<br />
the different integration levels <strong>of</strong><br />
extensions<br />
<strong>Platform</strong> website<br />
pages like: platform<br />
architecture,<br />
overview; also the<br />
literature<br />
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