Adopting Open Source Software: A Practical Guide

Adopting Open Source Software: A Practical Guide

Adopting Open Source Software: A Practical Guide

Adopting Open Source Software: A Practical Guide

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Overview

A rich case-study analysis of open source software adoption by public organizations in different countries and settings.

Government agencies and public organizations often consider adopting open source software (OSS) for reasons of transparency, cost, citizen access, and greater efficiency in communication and delivering services. Adopting Open Source Software offers five richly detailed real-world case studies of OSS adoption by public organizations. The authors analyze the cases and develop an overarching, conceptual framework to clarify the various enablers and inhibitors of OSS adoption in the public sector. The book provides a useful resource for policymakers, practitioners, and academics.
The five cases of OSS adoption include a hospital in Ireland; an IT consortium serving all the municipalities of the province of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; schools and public offices in the Extremadura region of Spain; the Massachusetts state government's open standards policy in the United States; and the ICT department of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The book provides a comparative analysis of these cases around the issues of motivation, strategies, technologies, economic and social aspects, and the implications for theory and practice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262297349
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/14/2011
Series: The MIT Press
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 631 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Brian Fitzgerald holds the Frederick A. Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick, where he is also Vice President of Research.

Jay P. Kesan is Professor and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Barbara Russo is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Computer Science and member of the Center for Applied Software Engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

Maha Shaikh is Research Associate in the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Giancarlo Succi is Professor of the Faculty of Computer Science and Director at the Center for Applied Software Engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

What People are Saying About This

Walt Scacchi

This is the first systematic, book length treatment that provides the knowledge and insight that arises from a careful comparative study of OSS adoption in different public sector organizations. Required reading for anyone involved in OSS research, and highly recommended for those who determine whether OSS is a viable, new way of adopting, implementing, using, and sustaining modern software systems.

Endorsement

With budgets under pressure almost everywhere, many organizations may want to explore alternative software procurement strategies. Adopting Open Source Software provides a very accessible and timely account of the experiences of public sector organizations in the EU and U.S. who have explored one of the alternatives: the adoption of open source software.

Matthijs den Besten, Research Fellow, Chair in Innovation and Regulation, École Polytechnique

From the Publisher

This is the first systematic, book length treatment that provides the knowledge and insight that arises from a careful comparative study of OSS adoption in different public sector organizations. Required reading for anyone involved in OSS research, and highly recommended for those who determine whether OSS is a viable, new way of adopting, implementing, using, and sustaining modern software systems.

Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine

With budgets under pressure almost everywhere, many organizations may want to explore alternative software procurement strategies. Adopting Open Source Software provides a very accessible and timely account of the experiences of public sector organizations in the EU and U.S. who have explored one of the alternatives: the adoption of open source software.

Matthijs den Besten, Research Fellow, Chair in Innovation and Regulation, École Polytechnique

Matthijs den Besten

With budgets under pressure almost everywhere, many organizations may want to explore alternative software procurement strategies. Adopting Open Source Software provides a very accessible and timely account of the experiences of public sector organizations in the EU and U.S. who have explored one of the alternatives: the adoption of open source software.

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