Factors Affecting Pricing

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Notes:

• In order to better understand the pricing of services by Web Service Providers, this question allowed respondents to choose from more than one option.

• The factor which respondents reported most affects the pricing is the complexity of the project (85.0%), followed closely by other factors (83.9%) and the duration of maintenance (71.1%).

• In general, providers seem to be using more factors to determine pricing than previously as almost all of these percentages are up from the fourth survey. The one factor that decreased in importance was the size of the project, which was the primary factor that determined pricing in the fourth survey.

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Table of Data for All Categories

factors.complexity	All	USA	Europe
complexity	379 84.98%	201 85.90%	41 95.35%
csize	115 25.78%	63 26.92%	12 27.91%
maint	317 71.08%	169 72.22%	34 79.07%
number	303 67.94%	167 71.37%	26 60.47%
other	259 58.07%	138 58.97%	23 53.49%
size	374 83.86%	201 85.90%	41 95.35%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280