Commercial adoption of open source software: An empirical study

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 225-234

  Glynn, Eugene ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Exton, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ADOPTION THEORY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGICAL CONTEXT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749054226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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