The adoption of open source desktop software in a large public administration

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 3930-3938

  Ven, Kris ^a   Huysmans, Philip ^a   Verelst, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adoption; Linux; Open source software; Openoffice.org; Public administrations

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; LINUX; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPENOFFICE.ORG; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870161794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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