Impact of user skills and network effects on the competition between open source and proprietary software

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-81

  Lin, Lihui ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duopoly; Economic analysis; Market structure; Network effect; Open source software; Open source software skills; User customization; User heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); USER INTERFACES;

MARKET STRUCTURES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SKILLS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARES; USER CUSTOMIZATION; USER HETEROGENEITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 41749094269     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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