Sažetak predavanja: Early implementations of open source software (OSS) were largely in the form of 'invisible' infrastructure applications in the back office. For example: Linux, Apache web server, Samba file/print services. These applications were adopted by 'tech savvy' IT staff who were often deployed 'under the radar' as no formal approval from the organization was required as these applications were free. However, that landscape has now changed as OSS has moved to more visible front office applications. Indeed, it is difficult to find any area of software development where OSS is not used to some extent. In this context, interests have shifted and adoption is a riskier endeavor. Based on case studies of public sector OSS adoption in four countries, some lessons learned can be turned into practical guidance on the types of issues that can derail OSS adoption or the types of initiatives that can enhance successful adoption.

Biography: Brian Fitzgerald holds an endowed professorship, the Frederick A. Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business & Technology at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he also served as Vice President of Research from 2008-2011. He is a University Research Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) at Lero, Ireland's Software Engineering Research Centre, and was the founding director of the Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering. He was previously at University College Cork and has held visiting positions in Italy, Austria, Sweden, the US and the UK. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests are primarily in software development, including development methods, global software development, agile methods and open source software.

His publications include 12 books and more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals in both information systems and software engineering, including: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly.
He worked in industry before taking an academic position and has more than 10 years of experience in the software industry. This was achieved at various companies, including: Citibank, eircom, IDS Computing and in a number of countries: Ireland, Belgium, Germany. He has been very successful in securing competitive research grants from various funding agencies including: EU, Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. In total, these projects have received total funding of more than 57 million, of which more than 9 million has been received directly as principal investigator.

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