Overview

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.

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Author:   Brian Fitzgerald ,  Jay P. Kesan ,  Barbara Russo ,  Maha Shaikh
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9780262516358

ISBN 10:   0262516357
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   11 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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, Ecole Polytechnique

Author Information

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. 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. 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.

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