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Adoption of open‐source software versus proprietary software: An exploratory study
Author(s) -
Dhir Swati,
Dhir Sanjay
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
strategic change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1099-1697
pISSN - 1086-1718
DOI - 10.1002/jsc.2137
Subject(s) - open source software , open source , software , computer science , exploratory research , usability , software development , business , world wide web , operating system , sociology , anthropology
Increases in cost, stability, more commercial support, and ease of software development facilitate people moving to proprietary solutions while for better security, free support, and ease of software development, people tend to move to open‐source solutions. Across all segments of ICT, users move toward open source as they get “free online support" for open‐source products. People prefer proprietary products as they wish to have “commercial support." Adoption of open‐source software is proliferating, because of the huge cost saving in software systems.