Managerial and technical barriers to the adoption of open source software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3412, Issue , 2005, Pages 289-300

  Holck, Jesper ^a   Larsen, Michael Holm ^a   Pedersen, Mogens Kühn ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

OSS; OSS VENDOR RELATIONSHIP;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 24344441194     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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