The commercial model competition of Open Source Software and Proprietary Software: Market Equilibrium and Economic Effects

摘要：

In essence, Open Source Software represented as Linux shows a different commercial model compared with traditional Proprietary Software such as Windows. This different commercial model gives birth to product’s difference among software manufacturers and shows different characters of plat competition from traditional software in the plat competition based on bilateral market. Based on systemic software market and according to the logic from monopoly to double oligarchs competition, this paper analyzes the monopoly market Equilibrium of Proprietary Software, then extends the model to double oligarchs market ， and probes into commercial model competition and consequently economic effect of Open Source Software and Proprietary Software.

关键词： commercial model economic effect market equilibrium open source software proprietary software

作者: Guangfeng Wang Jiashun Liu Yaojia Tang Hongrui Zhu

作者单位: College of Economic and management ,Hebei Polytechnic University, 46XinHua Road,TangShan City,HeBei Economic and International Trade School,Zhejiang University Of Finance & Economics,XueYuan street 18

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Third International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management(第三届运营与供应链管理国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 69-77

在线出版日期: 2009-07-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）