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Evaluating the Quality of Free/Open Source Systems: A Case Study

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Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010)

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Selecting and adopting open source projects significantly impact the competitiveness of organizations. Specially, Small and Medium Enterprises have to deal with major difficulties when they have to adopt existing solutions for managing their business activities. In particular, this problem is mainly felt with the availability of ERP Open Source systems. This paper proposes EFFORT (Evaluation Framework for Free/Open souRce projecTs), a framework for evaluating the quality of Open Source systems. The framework is, then, specialized for evaluating the quality of ERP Open Source systems. The usefulness of the specialized framework is investigated through a case study.

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, via Traiano, 82100, Benevento, Italy

    Lerina Aversano & Maria Tortorella

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  1. Department of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

  2. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Department of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

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Aversano, L., Tortorella, M. (2011). Evaluating the Quality of Free/Open Source Systems: A Case Study. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19802-1_9

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