The future of software as a business artefact

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 231-236

  Skidmore, Darren ^a  

^a University of Meblourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIERS TO ADOPTION; BUSINESS BENEFITS; BUSINESS RISKS; FEATURE SETS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE FEATURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 67249113358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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