Understanding Enterprise Open Source Software Evolution

Enterprise Open Source Software is continuously gaining acceptance in business organizations. This is essentially due to the understanding of the potential benefits deriving from the adoption of OSS project solution. Indeed, Open Source Software solutions offer great opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement, especially for small and medium enterprises that typically have to address major difficulties due to the limited resources. In this direction it is relevant understand and gain knowledge regarding the evolution of such software over systems the time. This paper report results of an empirical study aimed at analyzing the evolution of most relevant ERP open source system during their lifetime.