Software Ecosystem Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry
| Author/creator | Szyperski, Clemens Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 432 p. ill 09.000 x 07.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
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| Summary | Annotation Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years.Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industryare different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software andthe software industry are different--technologically, organizationally, and socially.The growingimportance of software requires professionals in all fields to deal with both its technical andsocial aspects; therefore, users and producers of software need a common vocabulary to discusssoftware issues. In Software Ecosystem, Messerschmitt and Szyperski address the overlapping andrelated perspectives of technologists and nontechnologists. After an introductory chapter ontechnology, the book is organized around six points of view: users, and what they need software toaccomplish for them; software engineers and developers, who translate the user's needs into programcode; managers, who must orchestrate the resources, material and human, to operate the software;industrialists, who organize companies to produce and distribute software; policy experts andlawyers, who must resolve conflicts inside and outside the industry without discouraging growth andinnovation; and economists, who offer insights into how the software market works. Each chapterconsiders not only the issues most relevant to that perspective but also relates those issues to theother perspectives as well. Nontechnologists will appreciate the context in which technology isdiscussed; technical professionals will gain more understanding of the social issues that should beconsidered in order to make software more useful and successful. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002044404 |
| ISBN | 9780262633314 |
| ISBN | 0262633310 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262633314 |
| Stock number | 0262633310 00015994 |
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