Reducing Transaction Costs with GLW Infrastructure

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Author(s): Marcus Vinicius Brandão Soares (NECSO Research Group – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kirk St.Amant (East Carolina University, USA)and Brian Still (Texas Tech University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch019

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Open Source Software / Systems and Software Engineering

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This chapter introduces the hybrid GLW information infrastructure as an alternative to proprietary-only information infrastructures with lower costs. The author argues that the use of FLOSS servers in a client- server infrastructure reduces the transaction costs relative to the data processing and the contract management that organizations have to support, preserving the investment already made with the installed base of clients in comparison to the use of proprietary managed servers. Transaction costs of two realworld proprietary infrastructures, Netware 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0, and of GLW, all with Windows 98 clients, are described and compared to give elements for the reader to analyze and decide.

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