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@Article{Traas:2000:SCM,
author = "Vincent Traas and Jos van Hillegersberg",
title = "The software component market on the {Internet}:
current status and conditions for growth",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "114",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341145",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component Based Development (CBD) promises a large
step forward in the quest for maximizing reuse in
software development. Although a variety of definitions
of CBD exists, key to CBD is the process of building
systems by way of combination and integration of
pre-engineered and pre-tested software components. For
CBD to be the long awaited breakthrough in software
development, the efficient reuse of software components
has to be organized by a market system; ``Components
develop their full potential only in a component
market'' [5]. Organizations may benefit from organizing
an internal component market. Software components can
then be reused over multiple projects saving valuable
resources. However, the most appropriate marketplace to
buy and sell components would be the Internet: an
international, freely accessible network, which is
perfectly suited for offering, promoting and
distributing components. A flourishing component market
on the Internet would really allow organizations to buy
and reuse against low-costs. Developers would only need
to focus on functionality specific to the project, and
on locating and integrating available components.
Industry watchers have predicted huge growth figures
for the software component market. Gartner predicts the
component market will grow to \$7 billion in 2001, of
which \$2 billion directly comes from component sales
[1]. Giga information group predicts an off-the-shelf
component market of \$3,3 billion in 2001 [6]. Ovum
goes further by estimating the size of the software
component market to be \$64 billion in 2002 [3]. But
does a component market on the Internet already exist,
and if so, what is its status? Also, if a component
market is so important for CBD to fulfil its promises,
what are the conditions for growth towards maturity?
Apart from rough estimations of the future size of the
market, little research has been done to investigate
the current component market and its growth. It is the
objective of the research reported on in this paper to
gain insight into these questions. The research
described in this article contained two phases: First,
an overview of the current status of the component
market on the Internet was created. Next, based on this
overview and a literature study, conditions for growth
of the market were developed. An email-survey was held
in which experts were asked to rate these conditions by
importance and comment on them. Section two and three
describe the results of these research phases
respectively.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}