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Item Impact of Open Source Mindset on Business Model(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, C.R.W.W.; Yatigammana, M.R.K.N.The expanded rivalry in the business sector and the mind boggling advances with an awesome measure of instability, the improvement procedure for developments has been tested to use information outside the association's limits. Open Source programming has turned into the new IT fever. Be that as it may, is it a good fit for specific business? Open Source programming is not a normal advertising built up IT fever, nor is it driven by any single organization's motivation. It is driven by countless IT experts around the world who have understood this strategy for creating and circulating programming to be far prevalent conventional business techniques. The accompanying passages ought to give a sufficient intensive lesson on the theme to shape an own particular decision. Scope of the examination take a hypothetical way to deal with the subject of openness. Motivation of the study is to eye the open source (and open design) as a probability to utilize outside components of developments to make new arrangements in a dynamic situation. It will examine the perspective of the users towards the open source and the behavioral patterns. This paper attempts to identify the impact of the open source mindset towards business model and provide a framework out of it. The data required for this examination undertaking will be gathered by means of essential and optional information accumulation techniques. The essential information was gathered through polls/survey. Auxiliary information was gathered by personal interviews, case studies, scrutinizing reports, articles, modern insights and other distributed material.Item Factors Associated with the Performance of Engineers within Software Development Companies in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Doole, F.R.; Abeygunawardana, R.A.B.The performance of organizations enables the growth of the company value and its survivability. However Organizational performance within the IT Industry is being mostly impacted by the human resources. As there are different types of employees, their dedication, effort and efficiency differ from each other. Summation of individual employee’s performance will result into the organizational performance. Therefore there might be significant association between organizational factors, individual skills and performance; however, this relationship was not examined in the Sri Lankan context in previous studies. To fill the said research gap this study was carried using the IT product development companies in Sri Lanka. The main objective of this research was to identify the factors which are associated with employee performance. This research was quantitative and used two main types of data collection methods: interviews and a questionnaire. The results of the analysis indicated that Organizational, Personal and Individual skill factors are associated with the engineer performance of software development companies. It can be concluded that the created conceptual framework was confirmed by the analysis which was carried out.