The software industry shows high growth, high margin business models. Successful companies in the software industry drive their business with partner ecosystems. Yet, some of the secrets behind success in the software industry are not well understood. This book collects recent articles on software industry topics, such as hybrid business models, open source business models and partner models and allows researchers and practitioners alike to stay at the top of their expertise.

Dr. Karl Michael Popp has broad knowledge and deep experience in the software industry. He is a member of the corporate development team at SAP, frequent presenter at conferences and author of many articles and books about the software industry.

“I highly recommend this book to professionals and students..”

Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - www.is.tu-darmstadt.de

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is the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for enabling enterprise scale adoption of open source software (OSS).

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provides legal advice for companies in the area of Information Technology. One of the major success factors of the firm is the combination of sector knowledge, legal expertise, and international know-how with many years of in-house experience.