Francois Letellier

open innovation; open source software; middleware; international environment; 20 y. experience

• English

  (Full professional proficiency)

• French

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Mythes et légendes des TIC - Mythes et légendes de l'open source et du logiciel libre

  • Forum Atena
  • August 12, 2011
  Authors: Francois Letellier

  Participation au livre collectif "Mythes et légendes des TIC" développé dans le cadre de l'association Forum ATENA.

• Open Source Software: the Role of Nonprofits in Federating Business and Innovation Ecosystems

  • AFME Conference
  • 2008
  Authors: Francois Letellier

  Due to its function as a key enabling technology for the information society and to its compliance with open standards, infrastructure software is quickly commoditized. Its market therefore evolves to natural monopolies faster than markets for tangible goods. The success of free/libre/open-source software, originally created for ethical reasons, may be explained by interpreting it as a new paradigm which provides effective answers to the structural flaws of the market. Now that mainstream industry players realize how much economical sense this approach makes, they investigate new business and innovation models.
  In this context, business-neutral meta-organizations federating vendors, customers and governmental agencies shall target the sustainable development of business ecosystems where stakeholders, widely spread across various geographic and cultural environments, develop beneficial strategies in line with their business and societal requirements. Real world experience from new generation F/L/OSS communities confirm this vision and suggest some balanced principles for their management and governance.

1. Middleware
2. R&D
3. Software
4. Cloud Computing
5. Open Source
6. Web 2.0
7. SOA
8. Architecture
9. History of computer science