%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Company Interactions with Open Platforms %A Tammy Yuan %X The telecommunications industry is moving away from building communications and data service networks using proprietary platforms of specialized hardware, closed interfaces, and proprietary technologies. Increasingly, the industry is assembling new networks on open platforms comprised of both commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and open source components. Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) stands at the center of the move to open architectures. This article addresses three questions. 1) What motivates companies to incorporate CGL specifications into their products? 2) How do companies adopting CGL create and appropriate value? 3) What roles do these companies play in the ecosystem anchored around the CGL Working Group initiative? These questions are of interest to top management teams facing pivotal decisions of whether or not to incorporate open platforms into their products, and how to compete in a world where those same platforms are available to competitors. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 08/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/86 %N August 2007 %9 Articles %1 Carleton University Tammy (Jiang) Yuan received her M. Eng. degree in Signal and Information Processing in 1999 from the South China University of Technology and a B.Eng. in Testing Techniques and Instruments in 1993 from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She has published various articles in Chinese academic journals. Tammy is about to complete her master's degree in Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program.