Perceptions and uptake of Open Source in Swedish organisations

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 203, Issue , 2006, Pages 155-163

  Lundell, Björn ^a   Lings, Brian ^a   Lindqvist, Edvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Open Source Adoption; Open Source in Swedish Companies; Perception of Open Source; Qualitative Survey

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT MODEL; INFRASTRUCTURE PRODUCTS; OPEN SOURCE ADOPTIONS; OPEN SOURCE IN SWEDISH COMPANIES; OPEN SOURCE PRODUCTS; PERCEPTIONS OF OPEN SOURCES; QUALITATIVE SURVEYS; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRY; SURVEYS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749159526     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_15     Document Type: Article

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