An examination of the use of open source software processes as a global software development solution for commercial software engineering

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 20-27

  Gaughan, Gary ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Shaikh, Maha ^b  

^a University of Limerick   (Ireland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; EMERGING TRENDS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PRACTITIONERS; LESSONS LEARNED; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; OPEN SOURCE PRINCIPLE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

OPEN SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 74549206139     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2009.86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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