Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and...

1 Introduction: The Business Model and Transaction structure -- Transaction Value, Costs, and Risks in the Transaction structure -- The Six Elements of a Transaction structure -- From Discovery and Reconstruction to Interpretation and Competition and Design -- 2 Business Models and Transaction...

A. Background: How the software industry works -- Economic principles at work in the software industry -- Software vendor strategies -- B. Specific Issues: Outsourcing and offshoring of software development -- Platform concepts -- Software as a Service. 7. Open source software