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1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages) : Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, 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, users and producers of software need a common vocabulary to discuss software issues. In Software Ecosystem, Messerschmitt and Szyperski address the overlapping and related perspectives of technologists and nontechnologists. After an introductory chapter on technology, the book is organized around six points of view: users, and what they need software to accomplish for them; software engineers and developers, who translate the user's needs into program code; managers, who must orchestrate the resources, material and human, to operate the software; industrialists, who organize companies to produce and distribute software; policy experts and lawyers, who must r

Who reads Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (The MIT Press)?

Author

David G Messerschmitt; Clemens Szyperski; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262134323

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Economics, Language Learning