An exploratory study into open source platform adoption

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 4221-4230

  Dedrick, Jason ^a   West, Joel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; MOTIVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDS;

INNOVATION; OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMS; OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMERS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 12344275313     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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