Partnering with other companies on critical software development processes might seem anathema to a company's bottom line, given competitive concerns. But collaboration is happening anyway to advance business objectives, and the practice is expected to increase.
The Linux Foundation this week released its "Collaborative Development Trends Report." Based on recent responses from 519 software developers and 167 business managers and executives at companies like IBM, Google, and Intel, the business model in which companies share development resources and build common open source code bases appears to be on the rise. These companies then can expand these code bases to differentiate their own products and services.
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