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Open source software : implementation and management

Title
Open source software : implementation and management / Paul Kavanagh.
Author
Kavanagh, Paul.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Digital Press, 2004.

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Description
xxi, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Open Source Software: implementation and Management provides key tools for System administrators, Networks Administrators, IT project managers, and consultants who must evaluate and deploy open source software." "This book details current open source successes and explains which scenarios are the most realistic opportunities. It also gives the details needed to select open source solutions, adopt the best tools and practices, introduce open source to an organization, and implement and manage the adoption. This book enables you to review opportunities in an organization, evaluate components such as Apache, Linux, and OpenOffice against familiar systems, and follow up in detail on specific interests, and includes thorough and helpful referred resources."--Jacket
Series Statement
Software development
Uniform Title
IEEE Computer Society Press technology series. Software development
Subject
  • Linux
  • Apache (Computer file : Apache Group)
  • Open source software
  • Shareware (Computer software)
  • Operating systems (Computers) > Management
  • Computer software > Development
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical and web references and index.
Contents
Open source software : definitions and history -- Where open source is successful -- Open source : the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Five immediate open source opportunities -- Five more open source opportunities -- Operating systems -- Open source server applications -- Open source desktop applications -- How open source software is developed -- Managing system implementation -- Application architecture -- The cost of open source systems -- Licensing.
ISBN
  • 1555583202
  • 9781555583200
LCCN
2004276144
OCLC
  • ocm56622709
  • 56622709
  • SCSB-9179547
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library