Comparison of software quality under perpetual licensing and software as a service

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-165

  Choudhary, Vidyanand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application service providers; Information goods; Monopoly; On demand computing; Pricing; Product development; Software as a service; Software licensing; Software quality

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ON-DEMAND COMPUTING; SOFTWARE LICENSING; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 38349087289     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222240206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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