Evaluation of open source software and improving its quality

Abstract

Open Source Software's (OSS) have been existing since decades. Several organizations around the globe are joining the notion to build with Open Source Model. They are finding open source as an attractive and practical alternative to proprietary software. Price tag of Open Source Software is very appealing. It can be inspected, modified, and freely redistributed. So several major organizations are considering to move to open source alternatives. Our work is an effort to provide a complete feedback based model to the client. Using proposed model client can evaluate different open source software's which provide similar functionalities in a better way. Proposed model takes feedback from clients upon the priority of attributes that affect the evaluation of OSS. Scoring of products are done on various attributes and final scores are calculated. Product with high score is considered as a better option.