MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Software As A Service, Fixed Capital, Software Development Process
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Sessio(cid:374) 22 ne(cid:449) tre(cid:374)ds: ope(cid:374) source & cloud co(cid:373)puti(cid:374)g / no(cid:448). 20: 2 trends that are transforming software industry (ch. 12 textbook): open source software (oss, cloud computing. Open source software (oss): what is open source, conventional software firms. Do not provide the source code for their commercial products. Treat their intellectual property as closely guarded secrets: oss: the source code for oss products is openly shared. Anyone can look at the source code, change it & even redistribute it - provided the modified software continues to remain open and free. Linux: an open source software operating system. Linux powers everything from cell phones to stock exchanges, set-top boxes to supercomputers (linux: found on 30 % of the servers in corporate america) Turn on the light it"s free know slide (mt. Acronym standing for linux, the apache web server software, the mysql database, & any of several programming languages that start with p (example: perl, python, or php)