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Adoption of Open Source Software and Software-as-a- Service Models in the Telecommunication Industry

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Software Business (ICSOB 2011)

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A case research is carried out on adoption of open source software (OSS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the telecommunication industry. The study was conducted to examine the types of software deployed as OSS and SaaS and the conditions of adopting OSS and SaaS. Findings of the case study indicate that industry-specific software is not developed as OSS or deployed in SaaS mode. Based on the findings, we also arrive at conclusion: Adoption is hindered by specificity of processes and technology interfaces.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, Agora, FI-40014, Finland

    Eetu Luoma & Lauri Frank

  2. Dept. of Business Information Management and Logistics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 527, FI-33101, Tampere, Finland

    Nina Helander

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Björn Regnell

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Inge van de Weerd

  3. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Olga De Troyer

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Luoma, E., Helander, N., Frank, L. (2011). Adoption of Open Source Software and Software-as-a- Service Models in the Telecommunication Industry. In: Regnell, B., van de Weerd, I., De Troyer, O. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21544-5_7

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