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Software Ecosystem : Undetanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry

by David G. Messechmitt



ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0262134322

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780262134323

Publisher: The MIT Press

Number Of Pages: 440

Publication Date: 2003-09-01





Winner in the category of Business, Management & Accounting in the 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishe, Inc. Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty yea. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the autho explain, from a variety of pepectives, how software and the software industry are different—technologically, organizationally, and socially. The growing importance of software requires professionals in all fields to deal with both its technical and social aspects; therefore, use and produce of software need a common vocabulary to discuss software issues. In Software Ecosystem, Messechmitt and Szypeki address the overlapping and related pepectives of technologists and nontechnologists. After an introductory chapter on technology, the book is organized around six points of view: use, and what they need software to accomplish for them; software enginee and develope, who translate the user's needs into program code; manage, who must orchestrate the resources, material and human, to operate the software; industrialists, who organize companies to produce and distribute software; policy experts and lawye, who must resolve conflicts inside and outside the industry without discouraging growth and innovation; and economists, who offer insights into how the software market works. Each chapter conside not only the issues most relevant to that pepective but also relates those issues to the other pepectives as well. Nontechnologists will appreciate the context in which technology is discussed; technical professionals will gain more undetanding of the social issues that should be considered in order to make software more useful and successful.





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