Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software: Barriers and Remedies.

The article discusses barriers to greater adoption by firms of open-source software, and ways of surmounting those barriers. In some instances firms aren't aware that open-source options exist for their software needs. Perceptions of steep learning curves for open-source products can sometimes disco...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 148 - 152
Autores principales: NAGY, DEL, YASSIN, AREEJ M., BHATTACHERJEE, ANOL
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Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2010
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          Information Systems & Decision Sciences Department, College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
          Professor of information systems, Information Systems & Decision Sciences Department, College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
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