Service Science Perspective for Open Source Project Survivability

With the growing economic importance of Open Source, many researchers have done great efforts for understanding Open Source Software itself and its communities. One of themes which is becoming to get strong attention is "Open Source Software Project Survivability", which researches the evaluation method of future prospections of open source software communities. Some good works have already been done adopting the concept of ecology. But we have to say that regardless of it persuasive empirical test result using logistic regression analysis data analysis, theoretical appropriateness is not still validated. So, to generalize existing theory, this paper experimentally analyze the true nature of Viability Index using the perspective of Service System. And as its result, it is cleared that Viability Index can almost measure whole OSS community activity effectively.