A new method for making software is stealthily gaining ground in the computer industry, offering a promise of better, cheaper software and the empowerment of the user. The open source movement could revolutionize the software industry...if it succeeds. Open source means software that you are...

Enforcing adherence to standards in software development in order to produce high quality software artefacts has long been recognised as best practice in traditional software engineering. In a distributed heterogeneousdevelopment environment such those found within the Open Source paradigm,...

The determination of factors that influence success in small business information systems (IS) is of obvious importance to the individuals running those businesses and to the regional economies where the businesses are located. The first step in this process is to develop models of interacting...

The past two decades have seen increasing sophistication in software work. Now and in the future, the work of both practitioners and researchers would be helped by a more objective and finer granularity recognition of types of software evolution and software maintenance activities as actually...

E-commerce technologies such as a website, email and the use of web browsers enables access to large amounts of information, facilitates communication and provides niche companies with an effective mechanism for competing with larger organisations world-wide. However recent literature has shown...

The technological environment in which Australian SMEs operate can be best described as dynamic and vital. The rate of technological change provides the SME owner/manager a complex and challenging operational context. Wireless applications are being developed that provide mobile devices with...

As an emerging innovation paradigm gaining momentum in recent years, the open innovation paradigm is calling for greater theoretical depth and more empirical research. This dissertation proposes that open innovation in the context of open source software sponsorship may be viewed as knowledge...

Šiame magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjami klausimai susiję su laisvosios ir atviro kodo programinės įrangos ir jos komponentų plėtra išmaniųjų telefonų rinkoje. Darbe nagrinėjama laisvoji ir atviro kodo programinė įranga, laisvosios programinės įrangos augimo tendencijos, bei...

Using a case study methodology, this research study set out to investigate thereasons for the poor adoption rate of OpenOffice.org to replace Microsoft Officeon the desktop. The BRW Model (Brink, Roos, Van Belle and Weller 2007) forthe successful migration to desktop Open Source Software (OSS)...

AbstractDeveloping countries are net importers of intellectual property products and open source software (OSS) production is one way in which local socio-economic development can take place. The public goods characteristics of OSS are contested and this study investigates whether in a...