A Model of Competition Between Perpetual Software and Software as a Service
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Notation Definition t 0 [0, 1] Time within the software life cycle [0,1] q Quality of the old perpetual software product ρ New perpetual software quality improvement ratio over the old version θ The SaaS initial quality improvement ratio over the old perpetual software, 1 < θ < ρ α Rate of software quality improvement for the SaaS product pu One-time upgrade price for existing users to upgrade to the new perpetual software pn One-time purchase price for new users to buy the new perpetual software ps The SaaS price for per unit time use of the software nt The network size at time t, where nt = {1, 2} k Marginal network effect δ Perpetual software incremental quality improvement ratio over the old version cα The SaaS vendor's quality improvement cost per unit time c OG users’ cost of switching to SaaS
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- MIS Quarterly
دوره 42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2018