Migrating to OSS-on-the-Desktop: Lessons Learnt and a Proposed Model

From Desktop to Tabletop: Migrating the User Interface of AgilePlanner

Digital tabletops are emerging interactive systems that support group collaborations. To utilize digital tabletops for agile planning meetings, we migrated a desktop based planning tool – AgilePlanner to a digital tabletop. This paper reports on challenges of the migration and illustrates differences between user interactions on a digital tabletop and on a desktop. Moreover, lessons and experie...

The Adoption of Open Source Desktop Software in a Large Public Administration

Several public administrations are currently migrating towards open source software (OSS) on the desktop. In this paper, we describe a case study of a large Belgian public administration that is currently migrating its desktops towards Linux and OpenOffice.org. The goal of the paper is to discuss whether such a migration is feasible, and why and how the migration could be undertaken. We describ...

Critical Success Factors for Migrating to OSS-on-the-Desktop: Common Themes across Three South African Case Studies

Bringing Open Source Software to the Desktop: an In-depth Study of the Implementation and Use of Staroffice

Introduction Open Source software (OSS) is coming to the attention of individuals, organisations, and governments' worldwide, and is increasingly being adopted by firms for specific business purposes (Overby, Bharadwaj et al. 2004). Organisations such as Beaumont Hospital Dublin have claimed cost savings in excess of €8m over 5 years as a result of migrating to OSS desktop systems (Fitzgerald a...

Lessons learnt from errors in radiotherapy centers

Background: The purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. This work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...