Computer software‚ be it the brain behind our VCR or the program created specifically to run a country’s missile defense system‚ are an absolutely integral part of helping to make our day-to-day lives that much less complicated. But when your blender comes screaming to life in your sleep‚ or your bank somehow “loses” your life savings and says “you only have 37 cents in that account”‚ who is to blame? According to liability laws that have been in question since the birth of what might be considered
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Software Piracy Almost everyday it seems ‚ software companys keep pumping out brand new software that kills the day befores in that it is more sophisticated and more in tune with the needs of today’s superusers ‚ office users ‚ and home users . Yet ‚ at the same time ‚ the software theft industry in growing at an even faster rate ‚ costing software companies billions of dollars a year . The piece of shit government can put as many copyright laws in a book as they feel ‚ but soon it will be
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Enterprise Resource System (ERP) IPOS. IPOS is a system that was created and has been developed for use mostly in civil-engineering companies. It is also software developer by a Czech company that is mostly used in the Czech Republic‚ but also in Slovakia. It is one of the best software programs in this industry and is widely used by small companies as well as by large companies foreign origin such as COLAS CZ‚ a.s.‚ IMOS Brno‚ a.s.‚ and Chládek a Tintěra Litoměřice‚ a.s. This system combines a classic
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Issues—The Software Crisis 1. Introduction to Chapter The term "software crisis" has been used since the late 1960s to describe those recurring system development problems in which software development problems cause the entire system to be late‚ over budget‚ not responsive to the user and/or customer requirements‚ and difficult to use‚ maintain‚ and enhance. The late Dr. Winston Royce‚ in his paper Current Problems [1]‚ emphasized this situation when he said in 1991: The construction of new software that
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INTRODUCTION Valve software is a successful entertainment and software company with over 300 employees. Valve software wanted to create a working environment that empowered their employees and gave them the freedom to be creative. What they have achieved is a very successful company that operates on a ‘flat’ structure where there are no managers or supervisors to report to and all employees are equals. “The company tries to keep its structure flat to remove or reduce barriers between the employees
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the Software Development Industry of Sri Lanka Sahan Jayawarna A.T. Fonseka Abstract The software development industry of Sri Lanka has grown rapidly during recent years. However‚ the quality of software products has become a critical issue as shown in the increase in software defects and associated solutions for those problems. This study aimed at understanding the critical factors underlying software product quality. It was based on a survey of ten software development companies and two
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WHAT IS A SOFTWARE A set of instructions that cause a computer to perform one or more tasks. The set of instructions is often called a program or‚ if the set is particularly large and complex‚ a system. Computers cannot do any useful work without instructions from software; thus a combination of software and hardware (the computer) is necessary to do any computerized work. A program must tell the computer each of a set of minuscule tasks to perform‚ in a framework of logic‚ such that the computer
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Computer software engineers use the basics and techniques of computer science‚ engineering‚ and mathematical analysis to the design‚ development‚ testing‚ and evaluation of the software and systems that enable computers to perform their many different tasks. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ computer software engineers are projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations over the 200212 period. The starting salaries for computer engineers with a bachelor’s degree can be higher
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SOFTWARE ENTREPRENURSHIP blah blah Composition II blah blah November 16‚ 2012 Software Entrepreneurship A software is a program that can be run on a computer system. Over the past few decades‚ software has become less of an obscurity and more of an absolute necessity. Modern societies function heavily under the use of computing and software systems. Organizations such as Schools‚ financial institutions‚ small business‚ large corporations are heavily ran on software systems. Software is
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Harvard Business Case: "Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape‚ Yahoo!‚ NetDyanamics‚ and Microsoft". 2. What are the similarities and differences between the four approaches to product development? What drives these differences? Type Netscape Yahoo Net Dynamic Microsoft Development Methodology RAD Phased Agile RAD Prototype Agile RAD Throwaway Prototype Waterfall RUP SDLC Approach (BA/Interactive design) Interactive design -Goal oriented
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