Pricing open source software

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 341-366

  Kim, Byung Cho ^a   Chen, Pei yu ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Tridas ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial software; Competition; Open source software; Pricing

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PRICING MECHANISM; PRICING STRATEGY;

COMPETITION; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84869989441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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