Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition …, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source … software on the quality strategies of proprietary software vendors when the market presents positive network externalities …

software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a … formal analysis of the process of competition between open–source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an … epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the different factors (profits for proprietary software and developers …