Licensing Schemes in the Production and Distribution of Open Source Software: An Empirical Investigation

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bonaccorsi ◽  
Cristina Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Production And Distribution

An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals

2009 ◽  
pp. 1608-1627
Author(s):  
Gilberto Munoz-Cornejo ◽  
Carolyn B. Seaman ◽  
A. Günes Koru
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Domain Specific

Open source software (OSS) has gained considerable attention recently in healthcare. Yet, how and why OSS is being adopted within hospitals in particular remains a poorly understood issue. This research attempts to further this understanding. A mixed-method research approach was used to explore the extent of OSS adoption in hospitals as well as the factors facilitating and inhibiting adoption. The findings suggest a very limited adoption of OSS in hospitals. Hospitals tend to adopt general-purpose instead of domain-specific OSS. We found that software vendors are the critical factor facilitating the adoption of OSS in hospitals. Conversely, lack of in-house development as well as a perceived lack of security, quality, and accountability of OSS products were factors inhibiting adoption. An empirical model is presented to illustrate the factors facilitating and inhibiting the adoption of OSS in hospitals.

scholarly journals Improvement of Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Evaluation from Developers' Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Raza ◽  
Luiz F. Capretz ◽  
Faheem Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
The Impact

User satisfaction has always been important for software success whether it is Open Source Software (OSS) or closed proprietary software. Even though we do not presume that OSS always has poor usability, as there are examples of good usable open source software, it would still be agreed that OSS usability has room for further improvement. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the impact of some key factors on OSS usability from developers' points of view. This is one of the series of four studies that we are conducting regarding improvement of OSS usability from OSS developers, users, contributors, and industry perspectives. The research model of this empirical investigation studies and establishes the relationship between the key usability factors from developers' perspective and OSS usability. A data set of 106 OSS developers from 18 open source projects of varied size has been used to study the research model. The results of this study provide empirical evidence that the studied key factors play a significant role in improving OSS usability.

An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals

2011 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Gilberto Munoz-Cornejo ◽  
Carolyn B. Seaman ◽  
A. Günes Koru
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Domain Specific

Open source software (OSS) has gained considerable attention recently in healthcare. Yet, how and why OSS is being adopted within hospitals in particular remains a poorly understood issue. This research attempts to further this understanding. A mixed-method research approach was used to explore the extent of OSS adoption in hospitals as well as the factors facilitating and inhibiting adoption. The findings suggest a very limited adoption of OSS in hospitals. Hospitals tend to adopt general-purpose instead of domain-specific OSS. We found that software vendors are the critical factor facilitating the adoption of OSS in hospitals. Conversely, lack of in-house development as well as a perceived lack of security, quality, and accountability of OSS products were factors inhibiting adoption. An empirical model is presented to illustrate the factors facilitating and inhibiting the adoption of OSS in hospitals.

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