Open source software acquisition: Beyond the business case

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Holck, Jesper ^a   Pedersen, Mogens Kühn ^a   Larsen, Michael Holm ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

COTS; Governance; IT architecture; Open source

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL CHANGES; BUSINESS CASE; COTS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; GOVERNANCE; IT ARCHITECTURE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN STANDARDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84870986250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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