Adopting new technology

The Eclipse 3.0 platform: Adopting OSGi technology

O. Gruber B. J. Hargrave J. McAffer P. Rapicault T. Watson From its inception Eclipse was mainly designed to be a tooling platform, but with Version 3.0, Eclipse is now evolving toward a Rich Client Platform (RCP). This change, driven by the open-source community, brought a whole set of new requirements and challenges for the Eclipse platform, such as dynamic plug-in management, services, secur...

Strategy for Adopting Information Technology for SMEs: Experience in Adopting Email within an Indonesian Furniture Company

In order to adopt IT, SMEs need to consider drivers and barriers that can influence the IT adoption success. This paper proposes a guideline to assists SMEs in adopting IT. The guidelines are formulated based on existing literature and authors’ experience in assisting Indonesian SMEs. An example of adopting email have been used to illustrate the process.

The transputer experience: adopting new technology for industrial use in Finland and in Hungary

Since its introduction around 1985, the transputer has drawn much attention among researchers and design engineers, due its novel architectural features and excellent performance. However, actual industrial applications have been rare in Finland and in Hungary. Being a clearly identifiable technology, the transputer provides an interesting opportunity to study spreading of technological innovat...

Equilibrium Incentives for Adopting Cleaner Technology Under Emissions Pricing

Barriers to adopting technology for teaching and learning in Oman

22 n the right circumstances, new technologies adopted by members of a community will spread by diffusion. One of the most robust findings about innovation diffusion is that shifts from one technology or product to another follow a sigmoid, or cumulative normal, distribution.1–3 Thus, the rate of adoption usually starts low, accelerates until about 50 percent of the community has adopted the te...