Resumen
This article focuses on the reuse of open source in commercial firms. Open source software provides organizations with new options for component-based development. As with commercial off-the-shelf software, project developers acquire open source components from a vendor and use them "as is" or with minor modifications. Researchers have proposed several structured, formal, or semiformal selection procedures that suggest various attributes to consider when choosing an open source component. To explore these issues from an empirical perspective, a study was conducted based on structured interviews with project developers in large and medium enterprises in the U.S. and India. The goal was to better understand the practices that successful commercial projects use when they incorporate open source components. Attempt here is not only to report the survey results, but also to develop a best-practice approach to open source development based on empirical analysis. The project sampling is limited, and doesn't represent the whole information technology industry. INSET: Example Applications.