The Correlation between OSS Project and Organizational Performance
Jong-Bae Kim1, Hyungwoo Park2
1Jong-Bae Kim, Soongsil University, Sangdo-Ro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
2Hyungwoo Park, School of Electonic Engineering, Soongsil University, Sangdo-Ro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
Manuscript received on 05 March 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 12 March 2019 | Manuscript Published on 20 March 2019 | PP: 72-78 | Volume-8 Issue- 4S2 March 2019 | Retrieval Number: D1S0017028419/2019©BEIESP
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Abstract: The software industry, which is the key to the opening of the fourth industrial revolution, evolves into artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and big data, attracting attention as Korea’s future food. On the other hand, due to the high reliance on foreign SW companies, low global SW market share, and lack of SW technologies, the SW industry is still considered to have low competitiveness. But recently, open source software is emerging as a solution for us to acquire foreign SW technology and secure SW competitiveness in a short period of time. OSS means SW that anyone can modify and redistribute source code of SW development stage. OSS has been perceived to be inferior in terms of security and completeness, but in recent years, companies and developers have been increasing their participation and expanding their adoption. OSS is playing a pivotal role in leading the SW industry innovation, especially in the new IT paradigm called ICBM (IoT, Cloud, Big data, Mobile). As the scope of OSS expands to various new SW industries (cloud, big data, security, virtual reality, etc.), global SW companies such as Apple and Microsoft and various small and medium sized SW companies open their SWs and support OSS related community. Particularly, the OSS virtuous circle ecosystem is built around the US, so participation in OSS activities is the driving force of SW innovation, which will lead to strengthening SW industry competitiveness. However, due to lack of awareness of OSS, rigid software development culture, and short-term performance, Korea’s contribution to OSS is still insufficient. In addition, due to the absence of SW source technology, it is highly dependent on proprietary SW companies. Therefore, SW companies need to strategically utilize OSS with advantages such as internalization of latest SW technology and human resources, shortening of development time, and cost reduction. In order to encourage OSS utilization and participation of Korean companies, it is necessary to first misunderstand and change recognition of OSS, foster OSS experts, and open computing environment. This study analyses whether participation in an enterprise’s open source software development project can generate organizational performance, which will promote the intent to participate. Through this, we intend to draw policy directions that can improve the awareness of our companies’ open source software and promote their utilization.
Keywords: OSS, Software Industry, ICBM, Project, Correlation.
Scope of the Article: Computer Architecture and VLSI