Monitoring Platform Emergence: Guidelines from Software Networks

In this paper we explore how platforms emerge and evolve due to independent actions by companies providing them or launching products on them. We use the software industry as the setting for our study. We analyze the pattern of evolution for Windows, Unix, and Linux over 14 years. Based on this, we...

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Published in:Communications of the Association for Information Systems 2007, Vol.19, p.1
Main Authors: Iyer, Bala, Lee, Chi-Hyon, Venkatramen, N., Vesset, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Operating systems
Pattern analysis
Platforms
Software
UNIX
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Summary:In this paper we explore how platforms emerge and evolve due to independent actions by companies providing them or launching products on them. We use the software industry as the setting for our study. We analyze the pattern of evolution for Windows, Unix, and Linux over 14 years. Based on this, we derive some lessons for companies aspiring to compete in settings where platforms and complementors play a major role. We support our analysis using visualizations. PLEASE NOTE: This is a very large article, over 1 MB in size.
ISSN:1529-3181
1529-3181
DOI:10.17705/1CAIS.01901