Acquiring IT Solutions through Open Source Software
Other Computer Science
2012-07-19 v1
Abstract
Open source software is free software that provides user freedom to use, replicate, modify, and distribute for any purpose. The quality of well-known open source software is very high and they are used by big companies such as IBM, Google and Amazon.com. Recently the number of open source software project growing very fast, which indicates that adoption of open source software is growing although still limited. Businesses should consider open source software as alternative solutions to their business problems or opportunities. An example of a very good open source software for office suite is discussed and compared with the well-known proprietary counterpart.
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@article{arxiv.1207.4247,
title = {Acquiring IT Solutions through Open Source Software},
author = {Mohammad Nabil Almunawar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4247},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
15 pages, conference paper