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What is Contracts

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Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
Agreements signed by two parties in which it is described what they may, can, or have to do and what they may not or cannot do in order to accomplish their objectives. Contracts make laws between parties.
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Reducing Transaction Costs with GLW Infrastructure
Marcus Vinicius Brandão Soares (NECSO Research Group – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch019
Abstract
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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