Adoption of open source software in software-intensive organizations – A systematic literature review

Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop, acquire, use, and commercialize software. This paper seeks to identify how organizations adopt OSS, classify the literature according to these ways of adopting OSS, and with a focus on software development evaluate the research on adoption of OSS in organizations. Based on the systematic literature review method we reviewed publications from 24 journals and seven conference...