Shareware programming is a wide open market for software sales. The use of different limitations, registration fees and payment methods are used throughout the shareware market. The goal of the project was to examine the methods of publishing shareware products as well as to inspect the shareware users' tendencies. Our data collecting techniques include surveys and interviews as well as an investigation of a popular shareware distribution website. The specific objectives of this project were to investigate shareware programmers' strategies of production, shareware users' likes and dislikes and to make recommendations to shareware companies as to how to publish a successful shareware program using the characteristics of shareware marketing that we have discovered through our research and analysis.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Martin, Peter
• Golaszewski, Peter
• Belliveau, Kenneth Daniel
• Jastrzebski, Sebastian

Subject

• Computing
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99D269I

Keyword

• Marketing

Advisor

• Selkow, Stanley M.
• Hofri, Micha

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright