@article {1388,
	title = {Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations {\textendash} A systematic literature review},
	journal = {Information and Software Technology},
	volume = {52},
	year = {2010},
	month = {11/2010},
	pages = {1133 - 1154},
	abstract = {Context

Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software.
Objective

This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations.
Method

Based on the systematic literature review method we reviewed publications from 24 journals and seven conference and workshop proceedings, published between 1998 and 2008. From a population of 24,289 papers, we identified 112 papers that provide empirical evidence on how organizations actually adopt OSS.
Results

We show that adopting OSS involves more than simply using OSS products. We moreover provide a classification framework consisting of six distinctly different ways in which organizations adopt OSS. This framework is used to illustrate some of the opportunities and challenges organizations meet when approaching OSS, to show that OSS can be adopted successfully in different ways, and to organize and review existing research. We find that existing research on OSS adoption does not sufficiently describe the context of the organizations studied, and it fails to benefit fully from related research fields. While existing research covers a large number of topics, it contains very few closely related studies. To aid this situation, we offer directions for future research.
Conclusion

The implications of our findings are twofold. On the one hand, practitioners should embrace the many opportunities OSS offers, but consciously evaluate the consequences of adopting it in their own context. They may use our framework and the success stories provided by the literature in their own evaluations. On the other hand, researchers should align their work, and perform more empirical research on topics that are important to organizations. Our framework may be used to position this research and to describe the context of the organization they are studying.},
	keywords = {open source software, organizations, software development, Systematic literature review},
	issn = {09505849},
	doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2010.05.008},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584910000972},
	author = {Hauge, {\O}yvind and Ayala, Claudia and Conradi, Reidar}
}
@conference {1255,
	title = {{\textquoteright}Letting go of Control{\textquoteright} to Embrace Open Source: Implications for Company and Community},
	booktitle = {2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2010)},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {1 - 10},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA},
	abstract = {It is increasingly understood across the information technology and services sector that engagement with the open source software model can serve as a means for firms to capture intellectual energy, learn about productive software processes, access relevant technical skills, identify and recruit staff, as well as obtain valuable resources including code. This paper reports a study undertaken within two large global IT companies that have been actively involved with open source for more than ten years. The study involved over 30 semi-structured interviews with employees of the companies drawn from top, middle, and lower level management, and included active and experienced developer as well as open source community members. Our findings indicate how these companies have adapted their day-to-day management practices to take into account the need for flexibility and freedom expected by open source communities. This paper focuses on how they {\textquoteright}let go of control{\textquoteright} and what the implications of this are for both companies and the communities involved. Our data reveals a number of themes and in this paper we focus on three principal ones; issues of requirements, total cost of adoption, and alignment of open source engagement with long term company strategy.},
	keywords = {adoption, companies, interviews, organizations},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-5509-6},
	doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2010.1},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/07-06-01.pdf},
	author = {Maha Shaikh and Cornford, Tony}
}
