The single-vendor commercial open course business model

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-17

  Riehle, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business model; Collaborative development; Commercial open source; Commercial open source business model; Dual licensing strategy; Go to market strategy; Open core business model; Open source; Open source licensing; Open source marketing; Open source product management; Open source sales; Single vendor open source; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856232970     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-010-0149-x     Document Type: Article

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