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The purpose of this this research is to suggest a comprehensive pricing schemata that software developers can use in the integrated state of software uses. To do so, we have reviewed the pricing criteria that the current fields of business administration treat and offered the basis of pricing systems. Then we have applied the prices of software products in Korea to the systems and earned abundant price payment units.
As for the research works of software pricing at the present, however, it seems that they are mainly focused on the uses and functions of some specific software rather than on general variables that affect the software pricing policies of PC and Client/Server environment. There have been many researches on individual consumption features such as on the case of upgrade, on the case of outsourcing like ASP, on the case of pricing package items, or on the case of ERP software.[1-5] In other words, there have been few researches on the schemata of pricing that software developers can use.
This paper aims to suggest a comprehensive pricing schemata that software developers, sellers, and distributers can use regardless of the state of software uses. To do so, first, it reviews the criteria of pricing that are frequently discussed in the current fields of economics and management and thereby establishes the basis that leads to a pricing schemata. Then the prices of software in Korea will be applied to the schemata, which will eventually make it possible to produce the complete pricing schemata unique in Korea.
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Kwak, Y., Lee, Y., Kwak, Y. (2009). The Development of Software Pricing Schemata and Its Application to Software Industry in Korea. In: Ślęzak, D., et al. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10580-7_2
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