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Competing Technologies in the Database Management Systems Market

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Tobias Kretschmer

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In this paper, we study the dynamics of the market for Database Management Systems(DBMS), which is commonly assumed to possess network effects and where there is stillsome viable competition in our study period, 2000 - 2004. Specifically, we make use of aunique and detailed dataset on several thousand UK firms to study individual organizations'incentives to adopt a particular technology. We find that there are significant internalcomplement effects - in other words, using an operating system and a DBMS from the samevendor seems to confer some complementarities. We also find evidence forcomplementarities between enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) and DBMS and findthat as ERP are frequently specific and customized, DBMS are unlikely to be changed oncethey have been customized to an ERP. We also find that organizations have an increasingtendency to use multiple DBMS on one site, which contradicts the notion that differentDBMS are near-perfect substitutes.

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Keywords: Database software; indirect network effects; technology adoption; microdata;

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L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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