Industrial application development with open source approach

Abstract

Much as software is very useful as a driving force of physical machine in assisting many aspects of human endeavor, it is also often accomplished with delicate aspect especially when correct specification and quality are not met. Ranging from less critical applications (such as payroll), to highly sophisticated application (such as health care system) as well as mission critical applications (such as space mission), failures in the functionality of these systems are often accompanied by disproportionate heavy losses to the respective users. In addition, industrial application is performance-intensive and cannot afford to fail. In this paper, our novel Open Onions Ontology was presented which approaches software development from a layered point of view, the open source approach as an alternative methodology for industrial application development was proposed. Various issues involved in industrial applications were reviewed, the current industrial development methodologies were discussed and possibilities of adopting open source were explored.