Author: Dirk Riehle

The open source research group at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was recently featured in the leading German business newspaper "Handelsblatt." The article by Nuremberg-local journalist Ilona Hörath (in German) provides a short description of the group's research agenda, with a focus on t...

SAP AG, the world's third largest software vendor, held its first (mostly internal) open source summit on Nov 11-12. Prof. Riehle as an invited speaker presented his analysis of "why open source is hard for closed source vendors." (The linked to presentation is a generic one without anything specifi...

The city of Nuremberg welcomes our new research group: „Stärkung für den Open-Source-Standort Nürnberg“ – Fleck begrüßt erste deutsche Open-Source-Professur Mit Beginn des aktuellen Wintersemesters hat eine Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle an der Friedrich-A...

The survey results are in. Thanks to all 106 participants who contributed! A bit of background. Let me first say that the survey obviously was not comprehensive. There were a lot of good books that we missed. However, it was not the purpose to judge book authors but rather I wanted to feel confid...

We are happy to report that Heise Open picked up the OSBF newsletter presentation of our group and posted their own short summary, see here: Heise Open: Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe an der Uni-Erlangen If this post led you here, please feel welcome to review our open source research agend...

(No English translation, but you can have some fun with what Google Translate thinks this post is about.) Wir haben uns heute über den Newsletter der Open Source Business Foundation (ansässig in Nürnberg) das erste Mal der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der Text des Kurzbeitrags ...

(Deutsche Übersetzung weiter unten.) Survey on agile methods and open source literatur We would like to understand which books you found helped you best in understanding agile and open source software development. (This is in preparation of our upcoming "Agile and Open Source Software Dev...

Work Description This Diplomarbeit looks at the use of aspect-oriented programming to implement object collaborations. One possible outcome of the Diplomarbeit is a matching open source framework. Another possible outcome of the Diplomarbeit could be a research paper with an abstract like this: ...

Work Description This Diplomarbeit looks at the use of design patterns in object-oriented software design. We will use the Booch software architecture catalog (and related materials) to assess a metric called design pattern density. One possible outcome of the Diplomarbeit could be a research pap...

Update 2010-01-01: These job postings are now closed. They will reopen in mid 2010. Stay tuned! (Deutsche Übersetzung) The Open Source Research group at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg is seeking to hire recent graduates or experienced software developers to start...