Pricing software as a service

There are dirrefent factors that may affect software price:

• Updates
• Customer support
• Training
• Add-ons and third party services
• Competitor’s prices
• Hardware costs

Read the article by Robert Lefkowitz Calculating the True Price of Software

Is there an economic model that can demonstrate the true worth of a piece of software and the option for support, maintenance, and upgrades? Robert Lefkowitz argues that open source exposes the true value of software itself as worth less in comparison to support and maintenance.