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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Dear Sir/Madam:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>We (Dr. Ghosh & Dr. Chawla) are conducting research on Open Source Software (OSS) adoption, usage, satisfaction, and implementation. Your talent, experience, and professional skills in IT using Open Source Software (OSS) is extremely valuable and will help us add value to the body of knowledge on OSS. We sincerely request<b> 15 minutes of your time</b> to fill out a survey and help us with the study. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Here is the link to the survey: </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><a href="https://owa.angelo.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d82df36b1fd84bbcac1d815365a7e3e1&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.surveymonkey.com%2fs%2fossresearchstudy+" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ossresearchstudy </a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>You will be directed to the survey by either clicking on the link or copy and pasting the link onto your Web browser's address line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>The study is duly approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Angelo State University, Texas. All responses collected will be anonymous and only aggregate results will be reported in a suitable academic research publication. The data collected will not be shared with any organization. If you wish to receive a summary of the results of the study, please send an email to Dr. Ghosh (<a href="https://owa.angelo.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d82df36b1fd84bbcac1d815365a7e3e1&URL=mailto%3akaushik.ghosh%40angelo.edu">kaushik.ghosh@angelo.edu</a>) or Dr. Chawla (<a href="https://owa.angelo.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d82df36b1fd84bbcac1d815365a7e3e1&URL=mailto%3asudhir.chawla%40angelo.edu">sudhir.chawla@angelo.edu</a>) Summary of results will be available in February 2012.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Thank you very much for your time and co-operation! We look forward to you valuable inputs and responses. Thanking you again for your time. We sincerely appreciate your help.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Sincerely, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Dr. Kaushik Ghosh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Assistant Professor of MIS <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Email: kaushik.ghosh@angelo.edu <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Dept. of Management & Marketing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Angelo State University, Texas <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Dr. Sudhir Chawla <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Frank Junell Professor of Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Email: sudhir.chawla@angelo.edu <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Dept. of Management & Marketing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Angelo State University, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>