OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THE TRENCHES: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE OSS IMPLEMENTATION

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 316-326

  Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Kenny, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

information systems development; information systems implementation; information systems infrastructure; Open source software

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CODES (SYMBOLS); COSTS; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; OPEN SYSTEMS; WAGES;

INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION; LARGE-SCALES; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; ORGANISATIONAL; PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 81055127445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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