This study identifies the factors that have a direct effect on a manager’s decision towards Open
Source System (OSS) enterprise system adoption in Malaysia. Using the Technology-Organization-
Environment (TOE) framework, the research is initiated by inviting the managers in Malaysian organizations
who implemented OSS. A survey was conducted via online OSS social communities and
by sending emails to shortlisted public. A total of 124 managers from 124 organizations responded
to the survey and the results showed that four out of six factors were found significant in this study.
In the technological context, ‘perceived relative advantage’, ‘perceived compatibility and trialability’
and ‘perceived complexity’ factors were found significant in the OSS adoption. In the organizational
context, ‘management support, knowledge and expertise’ was identified as the adoption factor.
Two factors in the environmental context that was not supported were the ‘technology skills and
services’ and ‘platform long term viability’ although previous studies suggested otherwise.
