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'ZAOZAO LIU MIS500 perish 2012 Should Martys union embrace unmortgaged- reference work packet in its hit fruit? Marty Dirwey, chief executive officer of Kalley Music Softw be, is facing a authoritative question that whether she should unclouded angstrom unit Up’s offset tag to users and developers. Undoubtedly, the juvenile outline which outspokens ascendant softw ar in KMSs hit product challenges the occurrent super successful schema which ranks holding the expert property of vitamin A Up. However, if I were Marty, I would support the stark naked strategy. in that respect argon four parts in this paper. 1) psychoanalyze a basal but substantive issue that wherefore Marty hesitates opening Amp Ups inauguration legislation; (2) further justify the thinks why the company should accept the open-source strategy; (3) ordinate some recommendations to KMS; (4) draw the conclusion. The reasons why Marty hesitates opening Amp Ups source code Essentially, there are three things Marty is pitiful about: the feelings of the aggroup, the churn of the guests, and the increase of the company. As we can see from the case, Marty is in a dilemma.She resists opening the source code, because she is unwilling to apply up the source code which is the proceeds of painstaking labor of the whole team and she is flummoxing about how to make specie if the company shared the source code of the software which currently is the main source of their r plainue. However, on the other hand, if she won’t open the source code, undeniably, she is likely to be seen as the enemy of the users, maybe non the enemy of all users, but at least the enemy of the fanatics, which must add to be alienated by the customers who revivify a significant role in the medicament game field. ZAOZAO LIU MIS500 FALL 2012 The reasons why the company should accept the open-source strategy Based on whats Marty worried I mentioned above, I will explain the reasons why the company should accept the open-source strategy from three perspectives. Considering the feelings of the team, especially the feelings of coders, I suppose the programmers must cheer for open-source software.Obvious is that confronting the current situation that inventing and executing dazzling upgrades are becoming harder and harder, programmers who Marty really cares about are fatigue so that they lose the erotic love in the software so that outfox the creativity. At the moment, open source is a savior for all the programmers. They can ruffle ideas from various developers and based on the basic innovative idea from developers, the programmers are to a greater extent likely to create much steadfast and valuable upgrades than their opponents, because the programmers, the parents of Amp Up, must be more old(prenominal) with every expand of code.Another fact we should recognize is that a new generation of programmers has grown up with open source software, and is more sk illed in finding out what they need with OSS than with shut and proprietary tools and systems. What mean by this is that with the open-source software, the programmers would work more effectively and efficiently. As to the customer churn, opening Amp Ups source code to the external developers doesnt necessarily chip in to the customer churn, while closing the source code doesnt mean that similar and discover software would never show up and the customers would be loyal to the company forever.Actually, infringers with solid competences drive already shown up. Thus 2 ZAOZAO LIU MIS500 FALL 2012 open source becomes a must-to-do thing. From my perspective, as long as the programmer team of Amp Up doesnt halt up the innovation of the software, the opponents can hardly take away the original customers. There are two reasons. One reason is that Amp Up has sound marque which has been generally accepted. In my opinion, the code of software is similar to the literature.Famous literatur e must be recreated several times, but the readers usually unaccompanied can remember the original generator and prefer the original work. Thus, Marty doesnt need to worry about the KMGs position in the medicinal drug game will be challenged easily, leading(p) to a large number of customer loss. The other reason is the team of Amp Up, including the programmers, CEO, COO, is professional and visionary and more familiar with the software and mass market so that the team is more likely to stand a better understanding of the customers election and cater to the needs of the market.The strategy of open-source software in KMSs hit product has a positive impact on enforcing the business transformation from a technology-oriented company to a serviceoriented company, which can cultivate KMS more opportunity to hold up more profit. If KMS wouldnt give away their proprietary IP and open the source, to keep technology advantages in the music game field, they must invest more money in Am p Up, much(prenominal) as maintenance fee of hardware, so the downward tendency of KMSs profit would be inevitable. Recommendations for KMS In short-term run, KMS should open the source and then integrate and utilize the ideas from different developers to mprove Amp Up quality and get potential customers to the 3 ZAOZAO LIU MIS500 FALL 2012 maximum extent. That is, KMS should utilize Amp Up to seize the last bucket of gold of the music software. After that, KMS should open the platform to third-party companies and result technical support to those companies which still have the dream of surviving or even thriving in an increasingly free-enterprise(a) music game field. In long-run run, a business transformation of KMS is a must. Besides, I think KMS should still prioritize the innovation, because it has a potent technology team. However, the theoretical account of technology innovation should be changed.Innovation in spite of appearance ecosystem should be a long-term directi on. resultant KMS should open the source, because Amp Up has already in the open-source community and open source software can bring more potential customers and more profit to KMS. Reference Coyle, Karen. â€Å"Open Source, Open Standards. ” breeding Technology and Libraries 21. 1 (2002): 33-6. ABI/INFORM Complete. Web. 18 Sep. 2012. Jonathan Schwartz. ”Should Marty’s Should Martys company embrace open-source software in its hit product? ” Simon, Phil. â€Å"Next Wave of Technologies” opportunities in nut house (03/01/2010) , Chapter 5 4\r\n'