Open Source Adoption Bottom-up, Eurostat goes EUPL, Spanish Open Source, Greek Municipalties’ Technological Club: European Open Source links 20-12-2008 

BE: Open source adoption is often bottom-up, Ph.D study saysKris Vein, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management Information Systems of the University of Antwerp, says that the adoption of open source frequently seems to be a bottum-up process, but recommendations from IT firms and consultants are also important sources of information. Organisations should not base their open source policies on those of other institutions because each has its own contexts. Open source software selection has still to be taken seriously.

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