Open source software adoption: Anatomy of success and failure

International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Fitzgerald, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

It adoption; It implementation; It project failure; Longitudinal research; Open sourc software; Software packages; Software selection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

IT ADOPTION; IT IMPLEMENTATION; IT PROJECT; LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; SOFTWARE SELECTION;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956408267     PISSN: 19423926     EISSN: 19423934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jossp.2009010101     Document Type: Article

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