Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia’s top firms

Goode, Sigi

doi:10.1016/j.im.2004.01.011

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“…Several of the barriers discussed above were also mentioned in previous research (see e.g., [10,20,11,12,25,5,19]). However, an important result of this study is that the most important barrier to the further adoption of OSSS was insufficient knowledge on OSSS.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Hence, these studies consider both organizations with a low extent of adoption and organizations with a high extent of adoption. A second line of studies has investigated the non-adoption of OSS (see e.g., [20,12,5,13,19,10,11]). These studies are concerned with determining which barriers prevent organizations from adopting OSS.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, it has been shown that even in the presence of several strong arguments in favor of the adoption of OSS, the existence of additional factors with a negative impact on adoption may result in non-adoption [13]. Previous studies that investigate the barriers to the adoption of OSS generally use a sample of organizations that have not adopted OSS (e.g., [10,11,13]). …”

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confidence: 99%

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A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software

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2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. An increasing number of academic studies have been devoted to the organizational adoption of open source software (OSS). Most studies have either focused on determining which reasons influence the adoption of OSS, or which barriers prevent the adoption of OSS. To our knowledge, no prior study has been conducted to determine which barriers exist to the further adoption of OSS in organizations. Studies addressing this issue could provide more insight into whether organizations are effectively able to overcome the initial barriers to adoption, or whether new barriers arise when the organization expands its use of OSS. To this end, we conducted a qualitative field study involving 56 organizations that were asked to report on which barriers existed to their further adoption of OSS. The data was analyzed using a mixed methods approach by combining both qualitative and quantitative techniques. Results showed that the main barrier reported by organizations was a lack of internal and external knowledge. Furthermore, our results indicate that there was no relationship between the barriers reported by organizations and their extent of OSS usage. This indicates that these barriers remain important as organizations increase their assimilation of OSS.

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2010

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“…Furthermore, numbers vary between about 10% and 75% for different strata [6]. A survey on Australia's top companies reports that 26% of the respondents used a varied spectrum of OSS products [8]. With the exception of Linux, Apache HTTP Server and perhaps a few others, most surveys report that less than 30% of the respondents have adopted OSS.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

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Sørensen

Conradi

2008

IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Is Open Source Software (OSS) undergoing a transformation to a more commercially viable form? We have performed a survey to investigate the adoption of OSS in the Norwegian software industry. The survey was based on an extensive screening of software companies, with more than 700 responses. The survey results support the transformation predicted by Fitzgerald [4]. Close to 50% of the software industry integrate OSS components into vertical solutions serving all major business sectors. In addition, more than 30% of the 95 respondents in our survey have more than 40% of their income from OSS related services or software. The extensive adoption of OSS in the software industry may be a precursor of the OSS adoption in other business sectors.

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“…Finally, several authors have noted that migration costs for training, document conversion and building up expertise can be an important barrier to the adoption of open source software [19,21,22]. In the past 18 months, BRIG needed to invest a lot of time in building up expertise in OpenOffice.org, developing training material and rewriting several templates that are in use by the ministerial cabinets.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Introduction of OpenOffice.org in the Brussels Public Administration

Ven

Nuffel

Verelst

2006

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Open source software is increasingly used by public administrations as an alternative to commercial software. In this paper we present a case study of the transition of the ministerial cabinets of the Brussels-Capital Region towards OpenOfRce.org. In this case, the decision to use open source software was taken by the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region. The goal of the paper is to outline the implementation trajectory followed and to compare our findings to previous studies in this field as well as other Information Systems literature. Additionally, we discuss how OpenOfl^ce.org was received by end users as well as the IT department that was responsible for the migration. Our findings indicate that although a migration towards OpenOfiice.org is feasible, a number of difficulties still remain. For example, end user perceptions of OpenOffice.org are not always favorable and migration costs (document conversion and training) can be significant.

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Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia’s top firms

Cited by 120 publications

References 75 publications

A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software

A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software

Adoption of Open Source in the Software Industry

The Introduction of OpenOffice.org in the Brussels Public Administration

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