Maurice Verheesen is currently preparing research on the inclusion of FLOSS in neutral tactical purchasing of software.

Much is known about the adoption of FLOSS. Literature states for instance reasons, trends and factors that influence the adoption. However when comparing procurement practices with the FLOSS phenomenon one can see several incompatibilities:

The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems
3-6 June 2009, Skövde, Sweden

Conference web site: http://oss2009.org/
CFP: http://oss2009.org/index.php?id=cfp.htm (accepting submissions through 15 November, 2008)

We're excited to give you all a heads up that the entire FLOSSmole database is now available directly via a MySQL server.

We have transferred the database to the NSF TeraGrid Data Central hosting site [1] (based at the San Diego Supercomputing centre). It's a bigger machine and professionally administered, which was much better than we could offer ourselves. See below for access procedure.

The FLOSShub site is currently in development. We are developing a portal for the free/libre and open source software development and research community to provide easier access to a wide variety of resources for FLOSS research. Check back soon for new content and features!