The migration of public administrations towards open source desktop software: Recommendations from research and validation through a case study

Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 191-214

  Ven, Kris ^a   van Nuffel, Dieter ^a   Verelst, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 43449130334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-210-7.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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