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Capability Attributes Strategic benefits

Flexibility Ability to mix and match diverse set of

software components

Agility

Freedom from vendor lock-in Faster time-to-market

Availability of superior code building
blocks

Continuous innovation

Source code as a source of innovation and
ideas

Efficient systems
design

Interoperability High interoperability from adherence to
open standards and open architecture

Agility

Enables deploying hybrid installations of
diverse components

Faster time-to-market

Reduces vendor dependency Efficient systems
design
Allows integrating multi-platform systems Design efficient
systems

Performance Performance optimization by integrating

best of breed components

Agility

Scalability Open source database found to be highly

scalable

Faster time-to-market

Ability to do modification at the OS level:
better integration and higher performance

Efficient systems
design

Stability Better quality providing more stability Efficient systems

design

Lesser points of failure as a result of
reduced resource requirements

Design efficient
systems

Security Reduced security threats leading to higher

uptime

Efficient systems
design

Cost savings Enables higher return-on-investment from

technology spend

Efficient systems
design

Table 10.1: Summary: FOSS reuse for strategic advantage

components that can provide them with new innovations. Studying this link be-
tween entrepreneurial alertness and FOSS reuse could be a topic for future re-
search.

• Recent research trends on strategic reuse of IS have focused on the co-creation

of IT value across inter-organizational systems [ 10 ]. The argument is that the
increasing specialization and the faster time-to-market makes it difficult for sin-
gle firms to assemble the required capabilities to operate in a hypercompetitive