I have listed english publications only. There are many more in german listed here.

Commercial Publications

NEW BOOK: Ecosystems and Partnerships in the Software Industry

This is THE reference if you are a professional in the software industry and you are considering to leverage ecosystems and partnerships for your success.

In its no-nonsense approach it reveals hidden goals of large software vendors with their ecosystems, tells you how to create your own ecosysten or how you can be successful in another software vendor´s ecosystem. With examples from Microsoft´s and SAP´s ecosystem it is a great source of knowledge.

If you are interested, just drop me an email titled "Ecosystems and Partnerships" to karl_popp@hotmail.com and i will let you know as soon as the book is published.

Partnering with SAP

This is a must-have reference book if you are a SAP partner or if you are considering to partner with SAP. It has all the information about the SAP ecosystem of partners.

SAP is a very fast growing marketplace with more than 48,000 customers in 120 countries. SAP plans to aggressively grow its customer base to 100,000 by 2010. Partners are already generating billions of dollars in revenues. The question is: How can you leverage SAP for your business? This book provides answers and gives interested readers an overview of the multiple options to partner with SAP.

Economic Theory for Ecosystems

Hal Varian is a well known source for entertaining views on economic theory facing the real world. Luckily he did that on the technology industry including the software industry and ecosystems. A recommended reading...

A Vademecum for acquisitions: Deals from hell

You can only avoid the pitfalls that you know how to avoid. This is especially true for mergers and acquisitions. Read this book and you will be better of in mergers and acquisitions.

Microsoft partnerships

Michael Cusumano has written a great book about Microsoft partnerships.