OpenSPARC : how giving away CMT chip hardware implementations creates value for Sun microsystems

[摘要] (cont.) d) Factors attracting open source developers to write software for a particular platform include a developer;;s belief that his program will be successful in the market. e) The information leakage to competitors from open sourcing Sun;;s multithreaded processor implementation does not diminish Sun;;s value capture of the market. f) The benefits that open source communities can have on market adoption of multicore and multithreaded servers, provided that the disclosure of the chip hardware implementation actually improves the technical performance and economics of the application software. This thesis will explore the reasons that Sun believes the open source community can be a catalyst for the wide-spread adoption of multithreaded processors and multithreaded software required simultaneously by all the major players in the computer industry.

[发布机构] Massachusetts Institute of Technology