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  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 05 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Brookings Institution, 2022. Census II of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries , Report, The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative, 2022. With James Dana, Jennifer Hoffman, Steven Randazzo, and Yanuo Zhou. The... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on management thinking in the future." 2022 Frank Nagle : Received a GitHub Research Grant in 2022. Frank Nagle : Received a View Details
  • Web

Software Tools - Research Computing Services

version stability) MATLAB, Mathematica, StatTransfer, OpenOffice (Excel-like program), as well as other software titles that are a standard part of the Linux OS and GUI environment (RHEL v7 and Gnome v3). To get started, either select the... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

sudden dramatic failure and more a story of ongoing competition at the platform level. The presence of competing platforms like Linux requires that Microsoft continue to invest in its IP base and integrate new innovations into its own... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

jumped on the bandwagon to some extent. It's partnered with Novell to put some of Microsoft's technologies on Linux and other open platforms. The Mono project consists of porting the .NET framework onto Linux, and the Moonlight project is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

sandboxing via Linux CGROUPS so one cannot use an incorrect index. aff = no | yes: CPU-GPU affinity. This indicates whether or not the job should enforce strict GPU-CPU affinity binding. That is, the GPU allocated is on the same socket... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

"For IBM, Linux is the razor, and WebSphere software and its related services are the razor blade," he says. "The question of how you invest and extract money becomes much more interesting when you consider the different... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

fragmented market ..." Citing the popularity of Linux at the server level, Eckel points out that "what that 800 lb. Gorilla (MS) is fighting against is a guerrilla army that is free." These comments reflect general beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409017 Linux vs. Windows Harvard Business School Case 707-465  As of 2006, Microsoft is finding that its dominant position in client and server operating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

with far too many features and software based on proprietary and interdependent architectures. "Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs," Christensen said. Potential threats: Sun's Java technology, the Linux operating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

popular platform provides automatic text captioning of the audio uploaded onto YouTube. Watson speech-to-text API : a machine learning API that can transcribe audio files into text, among other capabilities. VLC player : a free, open source media player that can be... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Greylock

Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

support Linux on Windows Azure. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-047 Microsoft Server & Tools (C) Supplement for case 613-031. Update on progress of Microsoft's Server &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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