Open source software success: Measures and analysis

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 364-372

  Sen, Ravi ^a   Singh, Siddhartha S ^b   Borle, Sharad ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FLOSS (free libre open source software); Longitudinal study; OSS (open source software); Software project success; Subscriber base

Indexed keywords

FLOSS (FREE/LIBRE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE); LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE PROJECT SUCCESS; SUBSCRIBER BASE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 82255179349     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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