The advancementof the softwareindustry has hada substantialimpact notonly
onproductivityandonGDPgrowthglobally butalsoonourdailyworkandlife. Software business refers to
commercial activity of the software industry aimed at generating income from delivery of
software products and software services. Although software business shares common features with
other international knowledge-intensive businesses it carries many inherent features making it
an intriguing and challenging domain for research. Until now however software business has
received little attention from the academic community. The First International Conference on
Software Business (ICSOB 2010) was organized in Jyv¨ askyl¨ a during June 21-23 2010. This
inaugural conference brought together a strong Program Committee of 52 members with research
disciplines from various ?elds of business management and technology mana-
mentaswellasinternational?avorwithmemberscomingfrom17countriesfrom South and North America to
Europe India and Australia. Wereceived35researchpapersubmissions.Thepaperswentthroughadoub-
blind review process producing at least three reviews for each accepted paper. The
ProgramCommittee accepted 13 submissions to be presented as full papers in the conference
equaling 37% of the submissions. In addition ten papers were accepted as short papers. The
accepted papers represent the wide variety of -
searchactivityonsoftwarebusiness.Forthepurposesoftheconferenceprogram the papers were
organized under eight themes: business models business m- agement ecosystems education and
research internationalization open source software and social media product management and
software as a service. In addition to the paper sessions the conference program included three
keynote presentations and a Business Innovation Track containing best-practice presentations
from the software industry. The conference program also included two workshops three tutorials
and an adjunct meeting of the Cloud Software Consortia.
