refereed ) Tobias Kretschmer Upgrading and niche usage of PC operating systems
نویسنده
چکیده
Microsoft has been dominating the market for PC operating systems (OS) for the last two decades. This paper analyzes the decision of rms to standardize on the mainstream OS family and assesses whether upgrading to the latest version within the MS family is a substitute for using niche OS. We address the following questions: 1) How likely is a rm to standardize on the Microsoft family? 2) How quickly will a rm upgrade to a new version of the mainstream system? 3) Which niche operating system is a rm likely to use, if any? We nd that upgrading and niche usage seem to be substitutes to some extent, but that larger and more IT-intensive rms will rather use niche systems than upgrade to the latest Windows version. JEL: L15, L86.
منابع مشابه
No 737 August 2006 Competing Technologies in the Database Management Systems Market Tobias Kretschmer
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the market for Database Management Systems (DBMS), which is commonly assumed to possess network effects and where there is still some viable competition in our study period, 2000 – 2004. Specifically, we make use of a unique and detailed dataset on several thousand UK firms to study individual organizations’ incentives to adopt a particular technology. We...
متن کاملIncentives for Quality over Time – The Case of Facebook Applications
We study the market for applications on Facebook, the dominant platform for social networking and make use of a rule change by Facebook by which high-quality applications were rewarded with further opportunities to engage users. We find that the change led to quality being a more important driver of usage while sheer network size became less important. Further, we find that update frequency hel...
متن کاملCEP Discussion Paper No 1265 April 2014 Video Killed the Radio Star ? Online Music Videos and Digital Music Sales Tobias Kretschmer Christian Peukert
متن کامل
Testing the “Waterbed” Effect in Mobile Telephony
This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones. Under quite general conditions of competition, theory suggests that lower termination charges will result in higher prices for mobile subscribers, a phenomenon known as the “waterbed” effect. The waterbed effect has long been hypothesized as a feature of many two-sided ...
متن کامل