Designing a forecasting analysis to understand the diffusion of open source software in the year 2010

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 672-686

  Gallego, M Dolores ^a   Luna, Paula ^b   Bueno, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adoption; Critical success factors; Delphi method; Diffusion; Forecasting; Open source software

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS; DELPHI METHOD; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DELPHI ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODELING; PARADIGM SHIFT; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 44349108387     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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