An economic model to compare the profitability of pay-per-use and fixed-fee licensing

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-588

  Postmus, Douwe ^a   Wijngaard, Jacob ^b   Wortmann, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fixed fee licensing; Mathematical modeling; Pay per use licensing; Software pricing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMICS; HOUSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; SALES;

AVERAGE COSTS; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; ECONOMIC MODELS; FIXED-FEE LICENSING; INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PACKAGED SOFTWARES; PAY-PER-USE LICENSING; SOFTWARE PRICING; SOFTWARE USES; SOFTWARE VENDORS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 57849108456     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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