TY - GEN
T1 - Commercial adoption of open source software
T2 - 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005
AU - Glynn, Eugene
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
AU - Exton, Chris
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - There has been a dramatic increase in commercial interest in the potential of Open Source Software (OSS) over the past few years. However, given the many complex and novel issues that surround the use of OSS, the process of OSS adoption is not well-understood. We investigated this issue using a framework derived from innovation adoption theory which was then validated in an organisation which had embarked on a large-scale of adoption of OSS. The framework comprised four macrofactors - external environment, organisational context, technological context and individual factors. We then investigated these factors in a large-scale survey. Overall, the findings suggest a significant penetration of OSS with general deployment in two industry sectors -consultancy/software house and service/communication - and more limited deployment in government/public sector. However, the existence of a coherent and planned IT infrastructure based on proprietary software served to impede adoption of OSS. Finally, individual-relevant factors such as support for the general OSS ideology and committed personal championship of OSS were found to be significant.
AB - There has been a dramatic increase in commercial interest in the potential of Open Source Software (OSS) over the past few years. However, given the many complex and novel issues that surround the use of OSS, the process of OSS adoption is not well-understood. We investigated this issue using a framework derived from innovation adoption theory which was then validated in an organisation which had embarked on a large-scale of adoption of OSS. The framework comprised four macrofactors - external environment, organisational context, technological context and individual factors. We then investigated these factors in a large-scale survey. Overall, the findings suggest a significant penetration of OSS with general deployment in two industry sectors -consultancy/software house and service/communication - and more limited deployment in government/public sector. However, the existence of a coherent and planned IT infrastructure based on proprietary software served to impede adoption of OSS. Finally, individual-relevant factors such as support for the general OSS ideology and committed personal championship of OSS were found to be significant.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33749054226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541831
DO - 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541831
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749054226
SN - 0780395085
SN - 9780780395084
T3 - 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005
SP - 225
EP - 234
BT - 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 17 November 2005 through 18 November 2005
ER -
