Critical success factors for migrating to OSS-on-the-desktop: Common themes across three South African case studies

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 203, Issue , 2006, Pages 287-293

  Brink, Daniel ^a   Roos, Llewelyn ^a   Weller, James ^a   Van Belle, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS; CERTAIN FACTOR; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT; DESKTOP SOFTWARE; EDUCATIONAL SECTORS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PRIVATE INDUSTRIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RESEARCH;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749176801     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_29     Document Type: Article

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