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This work cames from a research which had as main objective to analyse free software as a new alternative of competitive strategy. The owned softwares rules the softwares market for ages but there are lots of criticism about this fact. That´s why the attempts of criation, improvement, implementation and using of free softwares by corporations has been rising over the last years. The free software utilization is an attempt of the organizations to reduce their costs with licenses payed to the owners of the owned softwares to use it and modeling it according to their realities, necessities and cultures. The research and the case were the half of inquiry used in the collect and treatment of the datas. The research founds insinuate that the free software might bring advanteages to thestudied organization, although, instead of being seen as one more tecnological new fashion, its implementation must be well dicussed and planed always analysing the change’s negatives points.

Free Software; Information of Technology; Competitive Vantage; Strategy of Technology; Adventist College