Interoperability in E-Government: More than Just Smart Middleware
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 - Volume 05
Open sources 2.0
Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches
Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
A stage model of open source activities: an exploratory analysis on open source repository
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
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Understanding the evolution of a complex, competitive environment is always easier in hindsight, but today's CIOs and government policymakers don't have the luxury of retrospection when it comes to the volatile world of enterprise software. High-caliber decisions require a clear-sighted, non-dogmatic grasp of the contexts in which government enterprises today deploy both proprietary and open-source software in heterogeneous IT environments. This article addresses the topic, and describes ways in which proprietary and open-source software developers are drawing upon each other's development, licensing and business models. The article illustrates how today's IT world is no longer an "either/or" world in which customers and vendors chose to be either proprietary or open source. Instead, it is an attractive world of "both/and" as the lines between proprietary and open source have, making interoperable deployments almost inevitable in many if not most cases.