TY  - JOUR
T1  - Identifying the Affecting Factors for Adoption of Open Source
Software in it Community
AU - Majid Taha, Ahmed AU - Ahmed Abbood, Alaa AU - Akram Abdul Razzaq, Atheer AU - Al-Bahri, A.S. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 14
SP  - 5771
EP  - 5780
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2018.5771.5780
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2018.5771.5780
KW  - Open source software
KW  -technology adoption
KW  -usability
KW  -compatibility
KW  -quality
KW  -support
AB  - Open Source Software (OSS) can be regarded as one of the most recent trends in the information
technology society. The attractive features of OSS are the reliability and performance, in addition to the free
availability of the source code. Not only, the desktop environment of OSS is similar to that of proprietary
software solutions but rather exceeds in many features. However, there have been limited assessments or
empirical studies carried out concerning the adoption of OSS by the individuals for their personal needs as well
as the influential factors affecting the decision making process. The objectives of the current study are to
determine the main factors affecting the adoption of OSS in the desktop environment, investigate the status
of awareness regarding OSS in addition to investigate the status of OSS application usage extents within the
IT community. The research methodology made use of a surveying approach as an empirical means of
investigation, targeting the IT community. More than 340 questionnaires were completed and analyzed and the
results showed that compatibility, quality, support as well as usability are the key factors affecting the adoption
of OSS. The findings indicate that the operating system and the office suite environments are mainly dominated
by the proprietary software packages whereas the OSS usage is still limited among the community. On the
contrary, OSS internet browsers utilization is quite popular among the users. Moreover, the results shown that
awareness issue playing a role in OSS usage.
ER  -