Gerber, AMolefe, Onkgopotse MVan der Merwe, A2010-12-072010-12-072010-10Gerber, A, Molefe, O and Van der Merwe, A. 2010. Documenting open source migration processes for re-use. Proceedings of SAICSIT Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientist and Information Technologists. Bela Bela, South Africa, 11-13 October 2010, pp 75-85http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4605Proceedings of SAICSIT Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientist and Information Technologists. Bela Bela, South Africa, 11-13 October 2010There are several sources that indicate a remarkable increase in the adoption of open source software (OSS) into the technology infrastructure of organizations. In fact, the number of medium to large organizations without some OSS installations, is surprisingly low. This move to open source (OS), as well as the obvious advantages thereof, have motivated the CSIR of South Africa to investigate the adoption of OSS across the institution for all aspects of its operations. In launching this endeavor, it became apparent that there are very limited resources available, locally or internationally, that documented process related information about organizational OS migrations. This lack of information provides the motivation for this research that investigates the use of process reference models to capture the process related information for an organization-wide migration from proprietary software to OSS. In order to develop the necessary process reference models, the specific process models for the CSIR OS migration were captured, and, using a repeatable method based on reference model criteria, the generic process reference models for an organizational OS migration were extracted and documented. It is our firm belief that these process reference models would provide a baseline for the processes needed when any organization considers open source adoption or organization-wide OS migrationenOpen sourceOpen source migrationOpen source softwareComputer scienceInformation technologistsSAICSIT 2010Conference PresentationGerber, A., Molefe, O. M., & Van der Merwe, A. (2010). Documenting open source migration processes for re-use. ACM. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4605Gerber, A, Onkgopotse M Molefe, and A Van der Merwe. "Documenting open source migration processes for re-use." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4605Gerber A, Molefe OM, Van der Merwe A, Documenting open source migration processes for re-use; ACM; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4605 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Gerber, A AU - Molefe, Onkgopotse M AU - Van der Merwe, A AB - There are several sources that indicate a remarkable increase in the adoption of open source software (OSS) into the technology infrastructure of organizations. In fact, the number of medium to large organizations without some OSS installations, is surprisingly low. This move to open source (OS), as well as the obvious advantages thereof, have motivated the CSIR of South Africa to investigate the adoption of OSS across the institution for all aspects of its operations. In launching this endeavor, it became apparent that there are very limited resources available, locally or internationally, that documented process related information about organizational OS migrations. This lack of information provides the motivation for this research that investigates the use of process reference models to capture the process related information for an organization-wide migration from proprietary software to OSS. In order to develop the necessary process reference models, the specific process models for the CSIR OS migration were captured, and, using a repeatable method based on reference model criteria, the generic process reference models for an organizational OS migration were extracted and documented. It is our firm belief that these process reference models would provide a baseline for the processes needed when any organization considers open source adoption or organization-wide OS migration DA - 2010-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Open source KW - Open source migration KW - Open source software KW - Computer science KW - Information technologists KW - SAICSIT 2010 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 T1 - Documenting open source migration processes for re-use TI - Documenting open source migration processes for re-use UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4605 ER -