The book "Business Model - Open Source Software" from the author Tobias Engel has been released and is available in most book stores (External link to Amazon).

The book is about methods and success factors that introduce and establish open source software in the market using the example of open-scrm.org. Relevance as a research topic, is legitimated through the constant rise of open source software as well as the continuous deployment throughout the software and hardware industry for new business models (i.e. Apple with its development activities for their browser (Safari); IBM with its activities within the Linux community/development; etc.)

As a first step OSS had to be analysed under the criteria’s of social, economical and technical aspects. The following research activity has the methods and success factors from OSS as a result. It became obvious that success factors have multiple connections to different dimensions and belong to at least one main objective from OSS. p>

If you wish to receive more information about the book / this research, please information feel free to contact the author, Tobias Engel, via E-Mail ( Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. ).

Open-SCRM starts their fast information service via twitter. The name we are using on twitter is "OSS_SCRM" (http://twitter.com/#search?q=OSS_SCRM).