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 …

CONTEXT: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop,
acquire, use, and commercialize software. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to identify how …

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

Open source software (OSS) is probably the best known exemplar of open innovation, with
many practitioner-oriented publications having debated the merits and drawbacks of OSS in …

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 …

This chapter intends to show how companies can benefit from open source software and its
development culture and how the open source communities could, in turn, be stimulated and …

The main research interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has been in answering the
questions of why individuals and organizations without economic compensation contribute …

This paper addresses the open source software (OSS) phenomenon from an industry
perspective and reveals a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the …

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 …