Hibernia Hospital
Hibernia Hospital
This chapter examines the adoption of two open source software (OSS) applications at Hibernia Hospital in Ireland: The Star Office desktop suite, whose deployment was ultimately unsuccessful; and an open source email platform, which was ultimately deployed in a successful manner. It describes the different implementation trajectories for both open source applications within Hibernia and considers the issues of trialability and absorptive capacity, factors that facilitated OSS adoption.
Keywords: OSS applications, Hibernia Hospital, Ireland, Star Office, email platform, trialability, absorptive capacity
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