Scope and Timing of Deployment: Moderators of Organizational Adoption of the Linux Server Platform

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR)

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-23

  West, Joel ^a   Dedrick, Jason ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computing platforms; MIS decisions; network effects; open source; standards adoption; switching costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001838219     PISSN: 15393062     EISSN: 15393054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jitsr.2006070101     Document Type: Article

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