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Should You Adopt Open Source Software
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Companies must consider the advantages and disadvantages of open source software before adopting it and attach different levels of importance to these advantages or factors related to the adoption decision.Abstract:
Many organizations use open source infrastructure software such as Linux, and open source software (OSS) is generally considered a viable technology. Both professional and academic literature devote much attention to the OSS phenomenon. However, decision makers considering the adoption of OSS face a plethora of books, research papers, and articles highlighting OSS's advantages and disadvantages. Different articles attach different levels of importance to these advantages or factors related to the adoption decision. Reasons for adopting OSS vary from the pragmatic. Organizations must consider the advantages and disadvantages of open source software before adopting it.read more
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Joseph Feller,Brian Fitzgerald +1 more
TL;DR: The book addresses the fundamental questions of "what, why, when, where and how" the Open Source process has been able to produce category-killing software without the support of a traditional software engineering environment.
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Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia's top firms
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An exploratory study into open source platform adoption
Jason Dedrick,Joel West +1 more
TL;DR: This work uses a series of interviews with MIS managers to develop a grounded theory of open source platform adoption, and contrasts this to prior academic and popular reports about the adoption ofopen source.
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How Perceptions of Open Source Software Influence Adoption: An Exploratory Study
Lorraine Morgan,Patrick Finnegan +1 more
TL;DR: The impact of perceived benefits and drawbacks of OSS on its adoption in 13 companies operating in the secondary software sector in Europe is examined to reveal how technology, organisational, environmental and individual factors impact OSS adoption.