OSS - Adoption and Cost effectiveness - A study
The study introduces general properties of OSS and highlights their advantages and disadvantages from a user's and developer's pint of view. By means of a survey performed by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the study contains the analysis of the distribution and adoption of OSS in a large organisation. Relevant commercial and free software products are compared for important application areas. Furthermore a methodological procedure for the calculation of profitability when adopting OSS is presented. The study offers a valuable support for decision makers and users who want to profit from the potentials of OSS.
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tOSSad is an EU project funded under FP6 IST program - Contract No. 015981 signed 22/03 - 2005