In this paper we present a literature overview about OSS sustainability, considering not only financial resources, but also community growth, source code and tools management. Based on these aspects, we define an OSS life cycle that may contribute to OSS projects sustainability.

V AST numbers of students and other people interested in learning resources can now exploit learning infrastructures and learning designs on the Web. Even larger learning resources reside in universities' and organizations' intranets and Web-accessible e-learning systems. As the amount of learning content available on the Web continues to grow rapidly, it is increasingly important to define eff...

Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) is an alternative way of software development. Software is produced by a community of volunteer developers over the Internet, its source code is available to everyone and can be freely used, modified and distributed at no cost. Maintainability is considered the most important quality factor for such type of software. Recently, F/OSS ERP/CRM products have appear...

The main research subject of this dissertation is Open Source Software (OSS). It is an industry-driven case study aiming to understand OSS business in international context. As the purpose of this dissertation is to better understand OSS business in international context generally, it includes discussions concerning aspects of strategies, opportunities and challenges of OSS firms. These firms f...

Chinese software companies are increasingly using open source software (OSS) components in software development. Development with OSS components faces challenges with respect to component selection, component integration, licensing compliance, and system maintenance. Although these issues have been investigated in the industry in other countries, few similar studies have been performed in China...

Nowadays, the use of Open Source Software (OSS) components has become a driver for the primary and secondary information technology (IT) sector, among other factors, by the openness and innovation benefits that can give to the organizations, regardless of its business model and activities’ nature. Nevertheless, IT companies and organizations still face numerous difficulties and challenges when ...

An increasing number of academic studies have been devoted to the organizational adoption of open source software (OSS). Most studies have either focused on determining which reasons influence the adoption of OSS, or which barriers prevent the adoption of OSS. To our knowledge, no prior study has been conducted to determine which barriers exist to the further adoption of OSS in organizations. S...

Open Source Software (OSS) is an important asset in today’s software-intensive society. The success of OSS projects is highly dependent on a number of factors. These factors must be understood and managed as an OSS project progresses. Thus, project management of an OSS project has a decisive role in ensuring the success of its software. The objective of the research is to increase the understan...

The OSS (Open Source Software) phenomenon is a novel, widely growing approach to develop both applications and infrastructure software recently. The fast growth of the community increases the interests in OSS related research. Accurate prediction of the project success is one of the interesting studies in OSS research. We propose to use the ST (Spatial Temporal) data mining techniques to predic...

Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of...