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This workshop - to be held at Indiana University March 26,27 2009 - examines the question: " given millions of dollars invested in initiating software development, how is software that will be important to the US research and engineering communities identified, maintained, and supported over years to decades? " Of course a question of interest for other countries and their cyberinfrastructure initiatives. Workshop Goals: The goals of the Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability workshop are as follows: Examine software evaluation and adoption models by individual research labs and virtual organizations Examine models for long-term software sustainability – the ability to obtain the software one wants with assurance, obtain the information required to use the software, obtain the software and hardware environments required to run the software, and use the software. Discuss mechanisms for supporting sustainability, including direct government support, unive...

In the 25th anniversary issue (November/December 2008 (vol. 25 no. 6)) of IEEE Software , my NRC colleague Anatol Kark is part of the editorial team for the special issue on " Opportunistic Software Systems Development ". These are all great articles, and I particularly like the Jansen et al article (" Pragmatic and Opportunistic Reuse in Innovative Start-up Companies ") and feel that almost everyone who is trying to bring their organizationl IT into the 21st century should be forced to read the Gamble et al article (" Monoliths to Mashups: Increasing Opportunistic Assets "). Cornelius Ncube, Patricia Oberndorf, Anatol W. Kark, " Opportunistic Software Systems Development: Making Systems from What's Available ," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 38-41, Nov/Dec, 2008 Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Ivo Hunink, Cetin Demir, " Pragmatic and Opportunistic Reuse in Innovative Start-up Companies ," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, p...