Should you adopt open source software?

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 54-59

  Ven, Kris ^a   Verelst, Jan ^a   Mannaert, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Availability; Gain; Interviews; Linux; Management of computing and information systems; Management review and evaluation; Organizations; Software; Software management; Software selection; Standards

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STANDARDS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 44149102936     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.73     Document Type: Article

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