The number of software vendors offering ‘Software-as-a-Service’ has been increasing in recent years. In the Software …-as-a-Service model software is operated by the software vendor and delivered to the customer as a service. Existing business models and … industry structures are challenged by the changes to the deployment and pricing model compared to traditional software. However …

Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use … of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry …. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache …

interoperability between chemistry software, encouraging cooperation between Open Source developers, and developing community resources …

Today, it is almost inevitable that software is licensed, rather than sold outright. As a part of the licensing policy … of such mechanisms has primarily been in the realm of off-the-shelf, packaged, consumer software. However, as component …-based software gradually becomes mainstream in software development, new component-oriented licensing systems are required. This …

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

as derivatives trading, post-trading services and software sales. This trend can be observed most notably among profit …

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …