The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption

This project focused on finding out the perception of Tanzanian higher learning institution's community on open source software adoption. It is an attempt to reduce the current problem of pirated software in use by a number of users who cannot afford purchasing a genuine copy of proprietary sof...

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Main Author:	Oyuke, Lightness Duncan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2011
Subjects:	QA76.76 Fuzzy System.
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/2700/1/Lightness_Duncan_Oyuke.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/2700/2/1.Lightness_Duncan_Oyuke.pdf
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spelling	my-uum-etd.27002016-04-27T07:51:05Z The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption 2011 Oyuke, Lightness Duncan Ibrahim, Huda College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) College of Arts and Sciences QA76.76 Fuzzy System. This project focused on finding out the perception of Tanzanian higher learning institution's community on open source software adoption. It is an attempt to reduce the current problem of pirated software in use by a number of users who cannot afford purchasing a genuine copy of proprietary software such as Microsoft products. A quantitative research was adopted to test the relationship between independent variables: Top management support, cost saving, compatibility, continuity & flexibility technical support and IS community's perception and dependent variable: Open source software adoption. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from three Tanzanian higher learning institutions. Various factors of open source software adoption including IS community's perception and opportunities of open source software to higher learning institutions was examined in this study. An analysis was performed using the SPSS package to which the subsequent result of the correlations shows significant relationship between all independent variables and dependent variables, multiple regressions was also conducted. Three independent variables: Continuity & flexibility, top management support and cost saving had strong influence to the study while compatibility, technical support and IS community's perception had weak influence. Finally discussion, recommendation and conclusion were made. 2011 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2700/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2700/1/Lightness_Duncan_Oyuke.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/2700/2/1.Lightness_Duncan_Oyuke.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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description	This project focused on finding out the perception of Tanzanian higher learning institution's community on open source software adoption. It is an attempt to reduce the current problem of pirated software in use by a number of users who cannot afford purchasing a genuine copy of proprietary software such as Microsoft products. A quantitative research was adopted to test the relationship between independent variables: Top management support, cost saving, compatibility, continuity & flexibility technical support and IS community's perception and dependent variable: Open source software adoption. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from three Tanzanian higher learning institutions. Various factors of open source software adoption including IS community's perception and opportunities of open source software to higher learning institutions was examined in this study. An analysis was performed using the SPSS package to which the subsequent result of the correlations shows significant relationship between all independent variables and dependent variables, multiple regressions was also conducted. Three independent variables: Continuity & flexibility, top management support and cost saving had strong influence to the study while compatibility, technical support and IS community's perception had weak influence. Finally discussion, recommendation and conclusion were made.
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author	Oyuke, Lightness Duncan
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title	The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption
title_short	The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption
title_full	The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption
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The Perception of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution's Community on Open Source Software Adoption

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