Introduction Perhaps the business case for adopting open source software is an easy sell.
After all, the software is free, and can be simply downloaded from the Internet and installed …

This research report is based on survey data collected from an online poll distributed to
more than 40,000 information technology and business professionals. The results show that …

Organizations and individuals can use open source software (OSS) for free, they can study
its internal workings, and they can even fix it or modify it to make it suit their particular needs …

Open source, including Linux, is being deployed by a majority of companies in 2004, yet we
question whether customers are adequately prepared to deal with the costs and risks of …

Many organizations use open source infrastructure software such as Linux, and open source
software (OSS) is generally considered a viable technology. Both professional and …

This book examines the impact of government policy on open source software.“Open
source” refers to access to the source code, written in a programming language, that …

Introduction We define corporate open source (COS) as applying the precepts and
methodologies prevalent in the open source development community for creating industrial …

Across the spectrum of software organizations-from traditional software houses to service
providers, in both public and private sectors-open source software (OSS) is changing the …

While IT researchers have long focused on achieving strategic benefits provided by IT
investments, recently some have claimed “IT doesn't matter.” We believe that most large …

Previous research has shown that the open source movement shares a common ideology.
Employees belonging to the open source movement often advocate the use of open source …