An Exploratory Study of the Adoption Factors of Software Ecosystems in the Cloud
Abstract
In recent years, an increasing number of software companies have adopted strategies to attract external developers to their platforms. These companies make their platforms more flexible and attractive, in order to provide the appearance so-called software ecosystems. The establishment of these ecosystems has already occurred in the mobile device market and is now occurring in the mobile market cloud computing. This article aims to understand the criteria used by cloud application developers to adopt a particular platform and the associated ecosystem. This is done by identifying different factors that influence developers to choose a particular cloud platform. These factors were identified from a qualitative study based on 16 interviews semi-structured with cloud developers. Data analysis revealed that technical, social, individual and business factors are important for the adoption or rejection of a given platform by software developers.
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