IBM / The Sabre Group / Wal-Mart / Novell / Sabre Holdings / HP / MySQL / American Airlines / Intel / Microsoft / /
Country
United States / /
Event
M&A / /
Facility
IBM’s Transaction Processing Facility / /
IndustryTerm
managerial tools / stage systems / time evaluating new technologies / less strategic support stage systems / architecture incorporating custom applications / desktop computing / routine systems / “good enough” solutions / lower cost solutions / air carrier service / database product / information technologies / likely impact open source software / given technology / database software / printer services / airline industry / partly-owned subsidiary / web-based shopping service / local area networks / information systems / open source software / air travel shopping / web-based intranets / mission critical stage systems / non-production systems / commodity processors / back office data processing system / software adoption / cost open systems / potential applications / data processing / technology bubble / software adoption policy / internal systems / technology adoption / actual product / enterprise software adoption model / commodity hardware / bottom-up technology initiatives / online airline reservations system / laboratory systems / computing / acceptable products / software adoption decisions / /
OperatingSystem
Unix / Linux / Transaction Processing Facility / /
Organization
National Research Council / MIT / Stages Stage Strategic Mission / /
Person
JOEL WEST / Henderson / /
Position
critical Support Laboratory Goal Competitive Advantage Reliability Efficiency Evaluation Driver / model / Porter / /
Product
NonStop Servers / /
ProvinceOrState
Michigan / /
Technology
information technologies / CRM / Linux / Unix / commodity processors / given technology / RDBMS / Radio Frequency / local area networks / /
Forthcoming in Sherrie Bolin, ed., The Standards Edge: Open Season, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sheridan Books. A Conceptual Model for Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software STEPHEN K. KWAN AND JOEL WEST Silicon Valley Open