Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Adopting Open Source SoftwareA Practical Guide$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Adopting Open Source Software: A Practical Guide

Brian Fitzgerald, Jay P. Kesan, Barbara Russo, Maha Shaikh, and Giancarlo Succi

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780262516358

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262516358.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM MIT PRESS SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.mitpress.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright The MIT Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in MITSO for personal use.date: 02 July 2022

The Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Italian Chamber of Deputies

Chapter:
(p.103) 7 The Italian Chamber of Deputies
Source:
Adopting Open Source Software
Author(s):

Brian Fitzgerald

Jay P. Kesan

Barbara Russo

Maha Shaikh

Giancarlo Succi

Publisher:
The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262516358.003.0008

This chapter examines the adoption of open source software (OSS) by the Italian Chamber of Deputies. It explains that the motivation for considering OSS was to provide the administration with a fine-grained control of the software it uses which would not be subject to commercial or technical constraints imposed by vendors. The OSS projects by the Chamber include OpenOffice, Zimbra and Alfresco. The chapter suggests that the OpenOffice project at the Chamber was seen as successful because of support and commitment from top management and widespread user acceptance, which reflected absorptive capacity.

Keywords:   adoption of OSS, Chamber of Deputies, OpenOffice, Zimbra, Alfresco, user acceptance, absorptive capacity

MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.