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Framework for Analyzing the Success of Open Source Software

Chockalingam, Arun
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307983718

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2011, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Computer Science and Engineering.
The open source industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade. The concept of open source has been beneficial to a lot of people and has also proven to be a learning platform. It has forced the commercial organizations to change their business models. However, while some open source software has been enormously successful, most of it fails. An estimate is that almost 90% of all Open Source software fails. This has led to a lot of research on the factors that contribute to the factors of open source Software (OSS). Most of the existing research has been exploratory or case study based in nature, while some of it has been empirical. The majority of existing work has focused on one particular factor for OSS success, or has been a case study of one or two particular projects. Even though there has been lot of research in this topic, there is no clear method described on how a project administrator or sponsor could use this information to analyze his own project and improve it. We address this need by creating a framework of measures that can be used to analyze the success of any OSS project. This can be used by prospective and current developers and sponsors to analyze their project and improve it based on the results, to make it successful. We also provide guidelines on collecting data for applying the framework. Finally, we also apply the framework on two case study projects, namely, KANSEI and JFtp, discuss the results of the analysis, and suggest areas of improvements. We also perform a preliminary analysis of a third project, namely the On-time Measure project and discuss the results of the analysis.
Rajiv Ramnath (Advisor)
Jay Ramanathan (Committee Member)
Thomas Bitterman (Committee Member)
126 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science
open source software; success; framework; sustainability;

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  • Chockalingam, A. (2011). Framework for Analyzing the Success of Open Source Software [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307983718

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chockalingam, Arun. Framework for Analyzing the Success of Open Source Software. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307983718.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chockalingam, Arun. "Framework for Analyzing the Success of Open Source Software." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307983718

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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